ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the unique role of evaluation in the post-truth world. In the first section, we describe two post-truth paradoxes of evidence use in the public and political domains. We briefly discuss the implications of these for the practice and profession of research. In the second section, we argue that evaluation potentially plays a unique role in the post-truth climate of evidence use and describe tools applied by evaluators to anticipate and manage stakeholder needs and responses to evaluation. In the third section, we bring the chapter to a close by discussing the unique potential of evaluators to navigate evidence use in a post-truth world. The chapter contributes to two of the main questions considered in this book; namely, the relationship between expertise and decision-making in today's political climate and the complexity of evaluation practice (see: Marra, Olejniczak & Paulson—an Introduction to this book).
