institutions of rural governance in Europe through an examination of the evaluation procedures of the European LEADER programme … planning and management of LEADER embraces heterogeneity and participation, programmatic evaluation is centralised and is held … at arms length from the delivery organisations. The article reviews previous efforts to improve evaluation in LEADER and …

integrated environment. The report on the impact evaluation of the program is available at Kézdi and Surányi (2009). The results … and methods of the impact evaluation research were criticized in a paper published (in Hungarian) in Magyar Tudomány … paper we show that the critiques are unfounded. In this study we also summarize the conclusions from the impact evaluation …

the theoretical background and the details of the design of the measurement instrument adopted in the evaluation of the … general points of the design of such measurement instruments. The results and methods of the impact evaluation research were …