Mind the gap : perspectives on policy evaluation and the social sciences /
Jos Vaessen and Frans L. Leeuw, editors.
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2010.
- x, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Comparative policy evaluation ; v. 16 .
- Comparative policy evaluation series ; v. 16. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
US sociology and evaluation : issues in the relationship between methodology and theory / Nicoletta Stame -- Evaluation and the disciplines in development / Robert Picciotto -- Economics and evaluation / Sandra Speer -- The intellectual underpinnings of a comprehensive body of evaluative knowledge : the case of INTEVAL / Lisa Birch and Steve Jacob -- Public management theory, evaluation, and evidence-based policy / Robert Schwartz -- Interventions as theories : closing the gap between evaluation and the disciplines? / Jos Vaessen and Frans L. Leeuw -- Middle range theory and program theory evaluation : from provenance to practice / Ray Pawson -- Realistic evaluation and disciplinary knowledge : applications from the field of criminology / Nick Tilley.