Round tables themes

(1) Modes and actors of the evaluation (or control) of impact assessments: auditors, watchdog groups, stakeholders, general public. .. What role do they actually play in the process of impact assessment and in its appropriation? Do they contribute to a productive learning effect with regard to the goals assigned to the AIR? Are they on the other hand a source of complexity which would lead to perverse effects in relation to these goals? ...

2) AIR and inter-institutional relations. What are the effects of the practice of AIR on the roles within the Executive? On the relationship between Executive and legislative, on the relationship between public action (central, state, local) levels? On the” managerialisation” of law and the role of the judge...

3) AIR and alternative means of making reasoned policy. How stand the AIR within the set formed by the different forms of thinking on improving public policies and their development: ex post evaluations, various reports, thematic studies, ad hoc committees...

4) Appropriations of the AIR. : beyond the intensity and seriousness of the use of the AIR in each country, what acculturations are operated and what are the variables that seem to best explain them: main goals assigned to the AIR (explicitly or implicitly)? Home mode of innovation in public management? More precisely the characteristics of the evaluation culture?