Pawson, Ray.  1948- <br/><br/>
Science of evaluation :  a realist manifesto / 
by Ray, Pawson. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - London ;  Thousand Oaks :  SAGE,  2013. 
 - xix, 216 p. ;  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references  (p. [196]-209) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781446252437 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012942929 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB2A9671  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016199660  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Evaluation research (Social action programs)<br/>Evaluation.<br/>Policy sciences--Research--Evaluation.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>361.61072  / PAW