Administrative Agencies o Formative evaluations (process) vs. summative evaluations o Not prone to evaluate themselves o Frequent efforts to build evaluation into budgetary process Government Performance and Results Act o Many evaluations of policies and programs are produced within the administering agencies, either on their own initiative or at the direction of Congress or the executive. Agencies usually want to get some notion of how their programs are working and what can be done to improve them. The Johnson, Nixon, and Carter administrations tried to build policy analysis and evaluation into the national budgetary process