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100	1	0	_aThyrard, Antonin _eauthor
245	0	0	_a01. The European Court of Auditors: An undervalued champion of evaluation?
260			_c2023.
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520			_aThis article outlines the sociohistory of policy evaluation practices at the European Court of Auditors (ECA) since its foundation in 1977. Whereas the ECA’s performance auditing has grown, which some consider to be a clear move toward evaluation, an earlier interest in retrospective judgments regarding policy effects can be found in the institution’s history. Based on the analysis of archives and interviews, the article shows how the court sought from the very beginning to act as a “meta-evaluator” of the European Commission’s management systems through its official mandate as an analyst of the EU’s “sound financial management,” stressing the critical role played by former member André Middelhoek, in charge of methodological development. At the end of this revisited sociohistory, the ECA no longer appears as a simple relay, but rather as one of the true sources of the “culture of evaluation” of the European administration.
690			_aevaluation
690			_aperformance
690			_aEuropean Court of Auditors
690			_aaudit
690			_apublic management
690			_aacademic emergence
690			_apublic policy
786	0		_nPolitiques & management public | o 40 | 1 | 2023-03-28 | p. 5-28 | 0758-1726
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-politiques-et-management-public-2023-1-page-5?lang=en
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