The previous chapters have revealed that the ‘management’ of policy evaluation extends well beyond the specific technical tasks associated with undertaking the evaluation exercise. Indeed, for evaluation to be effective it must be integrated in the public decision-making process more generally. As such, in this concluding chapter the focus extends beyond the evaluation process itself, to a broader discussion of how public policy evaluations fit into public administration more generally. An effort is made to link some of these issues to the case of the ex post evaluation of tradeable permits. It draws upon the case studies in the preceding chapters, as well as the aforementioned ‘policymakers’ roundtable’, and a review of the secondary literature ...