Pawson, Ray, 1948-

The science of evaluation : a realist manifesto / Ray Pawson. - London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, c2013. - xix, 216 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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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Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Evaluation.
Policy sciences--Research--Evaluation.

H62 / .PAW 2013