In their Postmodern Public Administration Fox and Miller (1995) have a similar message. This also goes for some of the contributions to Telling Tales, which has as a subject ‘work done by evaluators at the crossroads of evaluation and narrative’ (Abma, 1999: 6). Bevir and Rhodes (2000) show that the use of a ‘narrativist’ method or approach is not necessarily connected with making an explicit plea for more democratic participation ‘from the bottom’.