Science of evaluation : a realist manifesto / by Ray, Pawson.
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TextPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2013Edition: 1st edDescription: xix, 216 p. ; ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781446252437 (pbk.)Subject(s): Evaluation research (Social action programs) | Evaluation | Policy sciences -- Research -- EvaluationDDC classification: 361.61072 | Item type | Current library | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| JKRC Social Science Complex | JKRC Social Science Complex | 361.61072 PAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PN106915 | BCL3141 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-209) and index.
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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