Pawson, Ray. 2013. The Science of Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto. UK: Sage Publications. http://www.uk.sagepub.com
Chapter 1 is available as a pdf. Hopefully other chapters will also become available this way, because this 240 page book is expensive.
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Contents |
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| Preface: The Armchair Methodologist and the Jobbing Researcher | |
| PART ONE: PRECURSORS AND PRINCIPLES | |
| Precursors: From the Library of Ray Pawson | |
| First Principles: A Realist Diagnostic Workshop | |
| PART TWO: THE CHALLENGE OF COMPLEXITY – DROWNING OR WAVING? | |
| A Complexity Checklist | |
| Contested Complexity | |
| Informed Guesswork: The Realist Response to Complexity | |
| PART THREE: TOWARDS EVALUATION SCIENCE | |
| 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 |
Reviews
- Lawrence Buhagiar at LSE Review of Books
- Alliance for Useful Evidence
- Adam Fletcher at Decipher
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Seetzen, Heidi. 2013. “The Science of Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology 16 (6): 547–48. doi:10.1080/13645579.2013.823286.
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Astbury, Brad. 2013. “Some Reflections on Pawson’s Science of Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto.” Evaluation 19 (4): 383–401. doi:10.1177/1356389013505039.j