When an Ambitious Program Evaluation of a Public Policy (Such

Multiple Choice

When an ambitious program evaluation of a public policy (such as welfare reform) fails to find that the new policy had a positive impact,

A) the effort in implementing and evaluating the program was a waste of time and money.
B) one should assume that the evaluator did a poor job.
C) one can expect that the quality of the debate over the policy will be more enlightened.
D) the policy will be changed within months of the evaluation report.