Household and Small Business Across the Disciplines

Households, which are seen as income pooling units (Wallerstein, Martin, Dickinson 1982), play a crucial role in the world-system analysis. Individuals enjoy income that accrues to their households, a unit embedded in a network of different social relationships among people, kin or not kin, living under the same roof or sharing some important living function. Thus, social relations are seen as ways of obtaining different types of income (wages, rent, pro?t, social exchange, gifts) and ways of ensuring different welfare services

Evaluation, Language, and Untranslatables

The issue of translatability is pressing in international evaluation, in global transfer of evaluative instruments, in comparative performance management, and in culturally responsive evaluation. Terms that are never fully understood, digested, or accepted may continue to influence issues, problems, and social interactions in and around and after evaluations. Their meanings can be imposed or reinvented. Untranslatable terms are not just lost in translation but may produce overflows that do not go away. The purpose of this article is to increase attention to the issue of translatability in evaluation by means of specific exemplars. We provide a short dictionary of such exemplars delivered by evaluators, consultants, and teachers who work across a variety of contexts. We conclude with a few recommendations: highlight frictions in translatability by deliberately circulating and discussing words of relevance that appear to be foreign; increase the language skills of evaluators; and make research on frictions in translation an articulate part of the agenda for research on evaluation.Peer reviewe

Avantages et inconvénients des différentes méthodes d’évaluation : comment choisir ?

Après des années d’expérimentations et de réformes inspirées du concept de « New Public Management » (nouvelle gestion publique), on constate que les choses ne fonctionnent pas comme prévu, que les résultats ne correspondent pas aux attentes, que chaque politique publique produit de multiples effets, attendus ou pas, positifs et négatifs. Nombreux sont donc ceux qui se demandent ce qui fonctionne, voire si quelque chose fonctionne. Et encore une fois, comme dans les années 1970 lorsque la sph..