ABSTRACT
This book is about the descrip tion of the policy process and not a prescript ive text. In this conclud ing chapter two concepts are addressed that belong to a large extent to the prescript ive branches of policy analysis: eval u ation and account ab il ity. In examin ing how these issues are addressed in the modern world there is a need to take into account the complex ity of the policy process explored through out the book and high lighted at the end of the discus sion of governance in the last chapter. If there is a ‘demo cratic deficit’ arising from the complex ity of governance, can new forms of eval u ation and new approaches to account ab il ity reduce that deficit?
