Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement: An Introduction to Practice Paperback - 2012

James C. McDavid (PhD, Indiana, 1975) is a professor of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. He is a specialist in program evaluation, performance measurement, and performance management. He has conducted extensive research and evaluations focusing on federal, state, provincial, and local governments in the United States and Canada. His published research articles include assessments of the ways elected officials use public performance information as well as comparisons of the efficiency of local government service production across Canada. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation.

In 1993, Dr. McDavid won the prestigious University of Victoria Alumni Association Teaching Award. In 1996, he won the J.E. Hodgetts Award for the best English language article published in Canadian Public Administration. From 1990 to 1996, he was Dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria. In 2004 he was named a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Victoria.

Irene Huse (MPA, PhD candidate, University of Victoria) is a recent recipient of a three-year Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Her research includes the multi-year study of B.C. legislator uses of public performance reports, co-authored with James C. McDavid and published in 2012.

Laura R. L. Hawthorn holds a Master of Arts degree in Canadian history from Queen′s University in Ontario, Canada and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Victoria. After completing her MPA, she worked as a manager for several years in the British Columbia public service and non-profit sector before leaving to raise a family. She is currently living in Vancouver, working on her horse farm and being mom to her two small boys.