The science of evaluation a realist manifesto / Ray Pawson.

Author/creator Pawson, Ray, 1948-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE,
Descriptionxix, 216 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [196]-209) and index.
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