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
ISBN-13: 9781412810753
Subjects: Policy sciences -- Evaluation; Social sciences
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.