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Realistic Evaluation by Ray Pawson
RRP: €66.64Booksplease Price: €54.73Realistic Evaluation shows how program evaluation needs to be, and can be bettered. It presents a profound yet highly readable critique of current evaluation practice, and goes on to introduce a... -
A Measure for Measures: A Manifesto for Empirical Sociology by Ray Pawson
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €64.02First Published in 2004. This challenging and pioneering work aims to provide a measure (a set of standards) for measures (empirical data) in sociological research. It argues that the critique of... -
Evidence-Based Policy: A Realist Perspective by Ray Pawson
RRP: €66.64Booksplease Price: €60.67In this important new book, Ray Pawson examines the recent spread of evidence-based policy making across the Western world. Few major public initiatives are mounted these days in the absence of a... -
The Science of Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto by Ray Pawson 9781446252437
Booksplease Price: €128.31Evaluation researchers are tasked with providing the evidence to guide programme building and to assess its outcomes. As such, they labour under the highest expectations - bringing independence and... -
Realism and Complexity in Social Science by Malcolm Williams
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.21Realism and Complexity in Social Science is an argument for a new approach to investigating the social world, that of complex realism. Complex realism brings together a number of strands of thought,... -
Mind the Gap: Perspectives on Policy Evaluation and the Social Sciences Phillip Allman 9781138512221
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.29Over the past twenty to thirty years, evaluation has become increasingly important to the field of public policy. The number of people involved and specializing in evaluation has also increased... -
How to Think Like a Realist: A Methodology for Social Science Raymond Pawson 9781035354801
RRP: €42.78Booksplease Price: €40.59How to Think Like a Realist is Ray Pawson's seminal book on realist social inquiry, boldly linking social research to clinical and physical science and challenging many methodological shibboleths... -
How to Think Like a Realist: A Methodology for Social Science by Raymond Pawson 9781035321094
Booksplease Price: €141.87How to Think Like a Realist is Ray Pawson's seminal book on realist social inquiry, boldly linking social research to clinical and physical science and challenging many methodological shibboleths... -
Realist Evaluation for Crime Science: Essays in Honour of Nick Tilley by Graham Farrell 9780367483678
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €50.77This collection of essays, published to mark the 20th anniversary of Realistic Evaluation, celebrates the work of Professor Nick Tilley and his significant influence on the fields of policing, crime... -
Key Concepts in the Philosophy of Social Research by Malcolm Williams
Booksplease Price: €77.39"This is a splendid book, providing a readable and reliable guide to a very large range of topics and literature... the author brings together, as few of us can, the details of research methodology... -
Key Concepts in the Philosophy of Social Research by Malcolm Williams 9780857027412
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €112.75"This is a splendid book, providing a readable and reliable guide to a very large range of topics and literature... the author brings together, as few of us can, the details of research methodology... -
Realist Evaluation: Principles and Practice Ana Manzano 9781032599779
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.25Realist Evaluation: Principles and Practice offers a comprehensive exploration of contemporary realist evaluation, showcasing how skilled practitioners navigate diverse fieldwork contexts.Authored by... -
Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better by Nancy Cartwright 9780199841608
Booksplease Price: €103.83Over 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... -
Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better by Nancy Cartwright 9780199841622
RRP: €33.90Booksplease Price: €22.87Over 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... -
Approaches to Social Enquiry: Advancing Knowledge Norman Blaikie (RMIT University Melbourne and Universiti Sains, Malaysia) 9780745634494
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.56Since its initial publication, this highly respected book has provided students with a much needed critical review of the major research paradigms in the social sciences and the logics or strategies... -
Sampling and Choosing Cases in Qualitative Research: A Realist Approach by Nick Emmel 9780857025104
Booksplease Price: €109.77All qualitative researchers sample, yet methods of sampling and choosing cases have received relatively little attention compared to other qualitative methods. This innovative book critically... -
Empirical Legal Research: A Guidance Book for Lawyers, Legislators and Regulators by Frans L. Leeuw 9781782549406
RRP: €47.54Booksplease Price: €44.79In 1788 John Adams created a sublime ambition for all nations - 'a government of laws and not of men'. In the intervening years we have come to learn that legislation itself works through the... -
Prison(Er) Education: Stories of Change and Transformation by David Wilson 9781872870908
Booksplease Price: €26.99A major collection of writings about the transforming power of education in British prisons. Prison(er) Education comprises key essays by leading prison education practitioners, academics and...