The science of evaluation a realist manifesto - Pawson, Ray 1948-; Metzler, Katie (Los Angeles SAGE, 2013)
Precursors: seven pillars of realist wisdom -- First principles: a realist diagnostic workshop -- A complexity checklist -- Contested complexity -- Informed guesswork: the realist reponse 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.
Keywords: Evaluation research (Social action programs); Evaluation; Policy sciences -- Research -- Evaluation