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.