Chapter 8

Key Terms:

• Evaluation Research: An attempt to assess specific policy option by conducting experiment, assessing their outcomes, and recommending whether or not an experimental policy option should be more probable implemented. 
• Policy Analysis: Study to assess the probable effects of a policy.
• Process-Oriented Management: Style of management that focuses on objectives limited to feedback and process objectives.
• Program Evaluation: The systematic analysis of any activity or group of activities conducted by a government to assess short-and long-term effects, both anticipated and unanticipated.
• Results-Oriented Management: Style of management that stresses realistic, measurable, and outcomes-oriented program objectives.
• Stakes: How much an individual or an agency stands to gain or lose, depending on the outcome of policy bargaining.
• Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF): Welfare-to-welfare approach enacted in the 1996 federal welfare reform law.