Mind the gap : perspectives on policy evaluation and the social sciences / Jos Vaessen and Frans L. Leeuw, editors.

Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2010.

Series:

Comparative policy evaluation series ; v. 16.
Comparative policy evaluation series

Format/Description:

Book
x, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Policy sciences -- Evaluation.
Social sciences.

Contents:

US sociology and evaluation : issues in the relationship between methodology and theory / Nicoletta Stame
Evaluation and the disciplines in development / Robert Picciotto
Economics and evaluation / Sandra Speer
The intellectual underpinnings of a comprehensive body of evaluative knowledge : the case of INTEVAL / Lisa Birch and Steve Jacob
Public management theory, evaluation, and evidence-based policy / Robert Schwartz
Interventions as theories : closing the gap between evaluation and the disciplines? / Jos Vaessen and Frans L. Leeuw
Middle range theory and program theory evaluation : from provenance to practice / Ray Pawson
Realistic evaluation and disciplinary knowledge : applications from the field of criminology / Nick Tilley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Vaessen, Jos.
Leeuw, Frans L.

ISBN:

9781412810753
1412810752

OCLC:

351324685

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