Catorce puntos esenciales sobre la evaluación de las políticas públicas con especial referencia al caso de las políticas sociales

This article gives some reflections about the usefulness, the quality and the suitability of the instruments of the public policies evaluation in the present context. It explains how they can not limit themselves being just mere controllers of the legality or to detect power abuse. They have to go beyond this, to convert into impact real indicators, and to reflect the quality of the interrelations between the public agencies and outside. For this reason they, previously, have to segment and to establish adequate parameters depending on the type of the relation and on the power structures that underlie to the different fields of the interventions of the public administrations. On the other hand, social policies will be analysed, these ones have been employed in Spain and in Europe. And it will be appointed to the ones that must be the clues to an evaluation that knows to give answers to new economic, social, family scenes and of a political participation characterised by the exclusion, inequality and by the so called new governance.