Mind the gap
Subtitle: perspectives on policy evaluation and the social sciences
By: [edited by] Jos Vaessen and Frans L. Leeuw.
Contributors: Vaessen, Jos.; Leeuw, Frans L.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781412810753
Subjects: Policy sciences -- Evaluation; Social sciences
Description: "Mind the Gap has a twofold aim. The first is to highlight and characterize the gap between evaluation practices and debates, and the substantive knowledge debates within the social and behavioral sciences. The second is to show why this gap is problematic for the practice of evaluation, while at the same time illustrating possible ways to build bridges. The book is centered on the value of producing useful evaluation grounded in social science theory and research."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: US sociology and evaluation : issues in the relationship between methodology and theory / Nicoletta Stame; title: Evaluation and the disciplines in development / Robert Picciotto; title: Economics and evaluation / Sandra Speer; title: The intellectual underpinnings of a comprehensive body of evaluative knowledge : the case of inteval / Lisa Birch and Steve Jacob; title: Public management theory, evaluation, and evidence-based policy / Robert Schwartz; title: Interventions as theories : closing the gap between evaluation and the disciplines? / Jos Vaessen and Frans L. Leeuw; title: Middle range theory and program theory evaluation : from provenance to practice / Ray Pawson; title: Realistic evaluation and disciplinary knowledge : applications from the field of criminology / Nick Tilley.