New from Slovenian Evaluation Society: "Aggregation problem in complex social evaluations"

 2011/11/30 Bojan Radej 

"Aggregation problem in complex social evaluations".
Slovenian Evaluation Society, Working paper 4/4(Sept. 2011), Bojan Radej
Abstract: Recognising that the society has become complex, means that there are a variety of well-founded and equally valid but socially incommensurable truths about social issues. This implies, inter alia, that policy impact evaluation must be provided from the platform of incommensurability. This endangers possibility for evaluation synthesis and is one of reasons why evaluation studies are mostly irrelevant for strategic managers. Paper resolves aggregation problem in matrical approach to evaluation in two steps. It first reformulates the aggregation problem. It is not about the difference between strong commensurability and strong incommensurability of social issues, as this is only relevant for few principal and constitutive issues. Policies are involved in practical life so they need to be evaluated from the aspect of distinction between weak commensurability and weak incommensurability of their impacts. This redefinition recovers the possibility of synthesis but requires that it is modified from simply additive to two step procedure involving also correlation synthesis of weakly overlapping policy impacts. This new approach to evaluation synthesis is tested on the practical case.
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April version of text in English: http://www.sdeval.si/Publikacije-za-komisijo-za-vrednotenje/Meso-Matrical-Synthesis-of-the-Incommensurable.html
Abstract in Spanish: 

 
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