TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pawson,Ray
TI  - The science of evaluation: a realist manifesto 
SN  - 9781446252420 (hbk.)
AV  - H62 .PAW 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Evaluation research (Social action programs)
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Policy sciences
KW  - Research
N1  - 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
ER  -