Evidence-based policy : a realist perspective

✍ Scribed by Ray Pawson

Publisher: SAGE
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 209
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In this important book, Ray Pawson examines the recent spread of evidence-based policy across the Western world. He examines the methodological assumptions that lie behind this drive for government departments, academic research projects and NGOs to adopt an evidence-based approach.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Evidence-based policy : the promise of systematic review --
Realist methodology : the building blocks of evidence --
Systematic obfuscation : a critical analysis of the meta-analytic approach --
Realist synthesis : new protocols for systematic review --
Reviewing implementation processes : Megan's Law --
Reviewing inner mechanisms : youth mentoring --
Reviewing outer contexts : naming and shaming --
Conclusion: Flying 'the tattered flag of enlightenment'.
Abstract:

Looking at the spread of evidence-based policy making across the Western world, this book examines the methodological assumptions that lie behind this drive for government departments, academic Read more...

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