Energizing the Energy Policy Process - by Roberta W Walsh & John G Heilman (Hardcover)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"Good evaluation is critical to the success of energy efficiency programs. This book contains some outstanding examples of energy efficiency program evaluation and how it can improve program design as well as energy policy more generally."- Howard Geller, Executive Director American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy

"Program evaluation can--and should--play a critical role in formulating, refining, and energizing energy policy. This book points the way, showing the growth and success of evaluation in the energy field within the context of the growth and success of the more general field of professional program evaluation."-Michael Q. Patton, Ph.D. Professor, Union Institute Graduate School Former President, American Evaluation Association

About the Author

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).