Searching for fraud, waste, abuse, mismanagement and pursuing economy, efficiency, effectiveness, accountability -- U.S. inspectors general: independent overseers of federal funds and bureaucracy -- IG appointments, career tracks, and controversies -- Conducting IG work: investigations,...

This article examines the changing nature of program evaluation and the way in which program evaluation is taught to MPA students. Drawing on her experience at George Washington University, the authors explains an approach to teaching program evaluation that has received a great deal of positive...

Decision rules are at the heart of federal grant allocations that presume funds will go where the need is. Federal grant administrators are under mandates to do effective, efficient, and responsive "relative need" program benefit targeting, explicitly defined in justifiable decision rules. Using...