Further Readings and Resources

Suggested Deliberative Democratic Research Study

Karlsson, O. (1996). A critical dialogue in evaluation: How can interaction between evaluation and politics be tackled? Evaluation, 2, 405–416.

Karlsson applies the approach as outlined in this chapter.

Other Suggested Readings

Gutmann, A., & Thompson, D. (1996). Why deliberative democracy? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Two political scientists present the case for deliberative democracy in general.

Hanberger, A. (2006). Evaluation of and for democracy. Evaluation, 12(1), 17–37.

This article presents a Swedish analysis of how democratic research fits into the larger framework of governmental decision making.

House, E. R. (2004). Deliberative democratic evaluation. In S. Mathison (Ed.), Encyclopedia of evaluation (pp. 104–108). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

This is a brief account of the deliberative democratic approach.

House, E. R., & Howe, K. R. (1999). Values in evaluation and social research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

This book provides the most complete account of deliberative democratic research and evaluation and its philosophical rationale in the American setting.

Howe, K. R., & MacGillivary, H. (2009). Social research attuned to deliberative democracy. In D. H. Mertens & P. E. Ginsberg (Eds.), The handbook of social research ethics (pp. 565–579). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

This chapter contains an analysis of how deliberative democratic research fits into contemporary political theory as well as a discussion of a few democratic research studies.

Karlsson, O. (1996). A critical dialogue in evaluation: How can interaction between evaluation and politics be tackled? Evaluation, 2, 405–416.

The Swedish approach to democratic evaluation is presented in this article by its leading proponent.

Karlsson Vestman, O., & Segerholm, C. (2009). Dialogue, deliberation, and democracy in educational evaluation: Theoretical arguments and a case narrative. In K. E. Ryan & J. B. Cousins (Eds.), The Sage international handbook of educational evaluation (pp. 465–482). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

This chapter examines the challenges of implementing evaluation methods in a cultural and political context other than the one in which these were developed (in this case, implementing the idea and practice of a dialogic, democratic evaluation approach developed in Sweden for use in Russia).

Kushner, S. (2000). Personalizing evaluation. London: Sage.

Kushner's book offers an interpretation of the British approach to democratic research.

MacDonald, B., & Kushner, S. (2004). Democratic evaluation. In S. Mathison (Ed.), Encyclopedia of evaluation (pp. 109–113). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

The British tradition of democratic evaluation is presented by its originator.

Norris, N. (1990). Understanding educational evaluation. London: Kogan Page.

Norris's is perhaps the most scholarly account of the British approach to democratic research.

Ryan, K. A., & DeStefano, L. (Eds.). (2000). Evaluation as a democratic process: Promoting inclusion, dialogue, and deliberation (New Directions for Evaluation, no. 85). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Proponents, critics, and those who practice deliberative democratic evaluation discuss its features.

Simons, H. (1987). Getting to know schools in a democracy. London: Falmer.

This book offers a lucid exposition of the British tradition of democratic research as it is applied to schools.