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The science of evaluation : a realist manifesto /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pawson, Ray
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, c2013.
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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.