The science of evaluation: a realist manifesto/

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pawson, Ray
Format: Printed Book
Published: London: Sage Publications Ltd., 2013.
Subjects:
Evaluation research (Social action programs).
Evaluation.
Policy sciences.
Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=zWpEAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+science+of+evaluation&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUkdCVq5vQAhVEu48KHcW7D8QQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20science%20of%20evaluation&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Precursors: seven pillars of realist wisdom
  • First principles: a realist diagnostic workshop
  • A complexity checklist
  • Contested complexity
  • Informed guesswork: the realist reponse to complexity
  • Invisible mechanisms I: the long road to behavioural change
  • Invisible mechanisms II: clinical interventions as social interventions
  • Synthesis as science: the bumpy road to legislative change
  • Conclusion: a mutually monitoring, disputatious community of truth seekers.

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