Abstract
This article engages with two themes of contemporary EU governance: the role of evaluations within an effective and coherent policy–making process and the EU's constitutionalised commitment to promoting gender equality in all its activities (Article 8 TFEU). It focuses on the interface between ex ante and ex post evaluation and the contribution of evaluations to policy learning, with particular attention to the promotion of gender equality. A case study approach is followed, with EU research policy as the object of analysis.
Highlights
At the time of writing, the European Commission is developing a renewed set of Guidelines for Evaluation, as part of its Smart Regulation agenda.[1]
It focuses on the interface between ex ante and ex post evaluation and the contribution of evaluations to policy learning, with particular attention to the promotion of gender equality
Policy-making in this area works on a cyclical basis, around the reiterations of the Research and Technological Development (RTD) Framework Programmes (FPs), for
Summary
At the time of writing, the European Commission is developing a renewed set of Guidelines for Evaluation, as part of its Smart Regulation agenda.[1]. The overarching question is whether ex ante and ex post evaluations are, two sides of the same coin. To explore this link, this article engages another horizontal theme within European governance, namely the EU’s constitutionalised commitment to promoting gender equality in all its activities (Article 8 TFEU), known as “gender mainstreaming”. Whilst gender mainstreaming implementation has enjoyed mixed success at best,[3] this article focuses on EU research policy as an area which provides a more positive example of gender mainstreaming in the EU4 and which, given the expenditure attached to it, has a long-established culture of evaluation.[5] Policy-making in this area works on a cyclical basis, around the reiterations of the Research and Technological Development (RTD) Framework Programmes (FPs) (the key instrument in this area), for
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