Mind the Gap: Perspectives on Policy Evaluation and the Social Sciences

ISBN-13: 9781138512221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 254 str.

Phillip Allman; Jos Vaessen

Opis

Over the past twenty to thirty years, evaluation has become increasingly important to the field of public policy

Spis treści

Foreword -Ray C. Rist
Preface -Jos Vaessen and Frans L. Leeuw
Introduction: Mind the Gap -Frans L. Leeuw and Jos Vaessen
Part I: The Evolving Relationship between Evaluation and the Disciplines
1. US Sociology and Evaluation: Issues in the Relationship between Methodology and Theory -Nicoletta Stame
2. Evaluation and the Disciplines in Development -Robert Picciotto
3. Economics and Evaluation -Sandra Speer
Part II: Evaluation and Its Disciplinary Basis
4. The Intellectual Underpinnings of a Comprehensive Body of Evaluative Knowledge: The Case of INTEVAL -Lisa Birch and Steve Jacob
5. Public Management Theory, Evaluation, and Evidence-Based Policy -Robert Schwartz
Part III: Bridging the Gap between Evaluation and the Disciplines
6. Interventions as Theories: Closing the Gap between Evaluation and the Disciplines? -Jos Vaessen and Frans L. Leeuw
7. Middle Range Theory and Program Theory Evaluation: From Provenance to Practice -Ray Pawson
8. Realistic Evaluation and Disciplinary Knowledge: Applications from the Field of Criminology -Nick Tilley
Contributors
Index

O autorze

Jos Vaessen