Pawson, Ray,  1948- <br/><br/>
The science of evaluation :  a realist manifesto / 
Ray Pawson. 
 - xix, 216 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-209) and index. 
<br/><br/>Precursors: seven pillars of realist wisdom -- First principles: a realist diagnostic workshop -- A complexity checklist -- Contested complexity -- Informed guesswork: the realist response 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1446252426 9781446252420 1446252434 9781446252437 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012942929 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Evaluation research (Social action programs)<br/>Evaluation.<br/>Policy sciences--Research--Evaluation.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>H62  / .P39 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>361.61072