Energizing the Energy Policy Process: The Impact of Evaluation - Hardcover

by Roberta W. Walsh (Editor), John G. Heilman (Editor)

The rapid development of energy program evaluation has broad implications for the policy porcess and policy design. Evaluation plays a far-reaching role in the energy policy process, affecting all segments of the population and the allocation of billions of dollars in public and private expenditure. The authors have selected a variety of energy program evaluations from the hundreds that have been conducted over the past five years to illustrate this development in energy policy. Thus, they inform the policy community in both academia and in government of the impact of evaluation in the energy context. They also enlighten practitioners in energy program evaluation of the policy implications of this work.

Author Biography

ROBERTA W. WALSH is Associate Professor in the Division of Public Administration at Florida Gulf Coast University. She received a doctorate from the Heller School, Brandeis University, held positions in federal government (including the U.S. Department of Energy), and served as an energy program evaluation consultant.

JOHN G. HEILMAN is Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Science at Auburn University. A founder of the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference and a member of the editorial boards of two journals in his field, he has also published numerous articles and authored several books, among them The Politics of Redistributing Urban Aid (with Douglas Watson and Robert Montjoy, Praeger Publishers, 1994).