Evidence-based policy : a practical guide to doing it better /
Cartwright, Nancy,
Evidence-based policy : a practical guide to doing it better / Nancy Cartwright and Jeremy Hardie. - ix, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Getting Started: From `It Worked There' to `It Will Work Here'. -- Part II. Paving the Road from 'There' to 'Here' -- Part III. Strategies for Finding What You Need to Know -- Part IV. RCTs, Evidence-Ranking Schemes, and Fidelity -- Part VI. Conclusion -- -- Getting Started: From `It Worked There' to `It Will Work Here'. -- A: What's in This Book and Why -- B: The Theory that Backs up What We Say -- -- Paving the Road from 'There' to 'Here' -- A: Support Factors: Causal Cakes and their Ingredients -- B: Causal Roles: Shared and Unshared -- -- Strategies for Finding What You Need to Know -- A: Where We are and Where We are Going -- B: Four Strategies -- -- RCTs, Evidence-Ranking Schemes, and Fidelity -- A: Where We are and Where We are Going -- B: What are RCTs Good For? -- C: Evidence-Ranking Schemes, Advice Guides, and Choosing Effective Policies -- D: Fidelity -- -- Deliberation is not Second Best -- A: Where We are and Where We are Going -- B: Centralization and Discretion -- -- Conclusion -- Representing Causal Processes -- The Munro Review -- CCTV and Car Theft. Part I. I. I. Part II. II. II. Part III. III. III. Part IV. IV. IV. IV. IV. Part V. V. V. Part VI. Appendix I. Appendix II. Appendix III.
"Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers rely on to gather and analyze evidence the right ones? In Evidence-Based Policy, Nancy Cartwright, an eminent scholar, and Jeremy Hardie, who has had a long and successful career in both business and the economy, explain that the dominant methods which are in use now--broadly speaking, methods that imitate standard practices in medicine like randomized control trials--do not work. They fail, Cartwright and Hardie contend, because they do not enhance our ability to predict if policies will be effective. "--Publisher's website.
0199841624 9780199841622 0199841608 9780199841608
2012022991
Policy sciences
Policy sciences--Evaluation
Human services--Planning
Human services--Evaluation
H97 / .C375 2012
320.6
Evidence-based policy : a practical guide to doing it better / Nancy Cartwright and Jeremy Hardie. - ix, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Getting Started: From `It Worked There' to `It Will Work Here'. -- Part II. Paving the Road from 'There' to 'Here' -- Part III. Strategies for Finding What You Need to Know -- Part IV. RCTs, Evidence-Ranking Schemes, and Fidelity -- Part VI. Conclusion -- -- Getting Started: From `It Worked There' to `It Will Work Here'. -- A: What's in This Book and Why -- B: The Theory that Backs up What We Say -- -- Paving the Road from 'There' to 'Here' -- A: Support Factors: Causal Cakes and their Ingredients -- B: Causal Roles: Shared and Unshared -- -- Strategies for Finding What You Need to Know -- A: Where We are and Where We are Going -- B: Four Strategies -- -- RCTs, Evidence-Ranking Schemes, and Fidelity -- A: Where We are and Where We are Going -- B: What are RCTs Good For? -- C: Evidence-Ranking Schemes, Advice Guides, and Choosing Effective Policies -- D: Fidelity -- -- Deliberation is not Second Best -- A: Where We are and Where We are Going -- B: Centralization and Discretion -- -- Conclusion -- Representing Causal Processes -- The Munro Review -- CCTV and Car Theft. Part I. I. I. Part II. II. II. Part III. III. III. Part IV. IV. IV. IV. IV. Part V. V. V. Part VI. Appendix I. Appendix II. Appendix III.
"Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers rely on to gather and analyze evidence the right ones? In Evidence-Based Policy, Nancy Cartwright, an eminent scholar, and Jeremy Hardie, who has had a long and successful career in both business and the economy, explain that the dominant methods which are in use now--broadly speaking, methods that imitate standard practices in medicine like randomized control trials--do not work. They fail, Cartwright and Hardie contend, because they do not enhance our ability to predict if policies will be effective. "--Publisher's website.
0199841624 9780199841622 0199841608 9780199841608
2012022991
Policy sciences
Policy sciences--Evaluation
Human services--Planning
Human services--Evaluation
H97 / .C375 2012
320.6