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Conceptual foundations for the development of J.G.Turner’s general sociological theory: metatheoretical ideas, basic concepts and analytical scheme

, 2019
Volodymyr Reznik
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What Happens When a Black Swan Meets a Gray Rhino? Reflections on the Evaluation Market in Transformative Times

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This chapter examines recent disruptions in the U.S. evaluation market through the combined lens of the Evaluation Marketplace Framework and the Black Swan/Gray Rhino typology. We argue that the Trump Administration's abrupt reduction in federal evaluation commissioning constitutes a Black Swan shock, whereas the long‐anticipated technological
Steffen Bohni Nielsen, Sebastian Lemire
wiley   +1 more source

Interview with Prof. Dr. Jean-Marc Burgunder - 8^th European Congress on Neurorehabilitation in conjunction with the 20^th Congress of the Society for the Study of Neuroprotection and Neuroplasticity. [PDF]

J Med Life
Dobran SA, Gherman A.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Role of Evaluation in Strengthening Democracy

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have positioned evaluation as central to democratic life, linking it to accountability, transparency, and collective learning (Scriven, 1967; House, 1980; Greene & Mark, 2017), but this scholarship assumes a stable democratic order rather than questioning it. Drawing on research on democratic turnarounds and Slater's (2013) concept of
Christina A Christie
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the stigma of mental illness in life worlds of different economic pressure: a maximal contrast analysis. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Speerforck S, Helmert C, Leonhard A, Angermeyer MC, Link BG, Matuschek I, Schomerus G.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Affective Structure of the Social World: Repairing a Blind Spot in Luhmann's Sociology with Parsons' General Theory of Action [PDF]

, 2004
Helmut Staubmann
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Can Evaluation Policies Survive Democratic Erosion? Safeguarding Independence in International Organizations

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International organizations' (IOs) evaluation policies face unprecedented threats from post‐truth dynamics—delegitimization of expertise, nationalist framing against multilateralism, authoritarian overconfidence, and anti‐scientific sentiment. Despite institutional convergence on independence safeguards, methodological standards, and normative
Mita Marra
wiley   +1 more source

Remote Access to Primary Care: Theorising 'Care Navigation'. [PDF]

Sociol Health Illn
Hughes G, Rybczynska-Bunt S, O'Rourke S, Shasha'h S, Wherton J, Shaw S, Greenhalgh T.   +6 more
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Providing the General Practice by Doctors-family Doctors of the Obstetric and Gynecologic Care and Characteristic of Interrelation of Primary Link with Obstetric and Gynecologic Services: by Results of a Sociological Research

, 2019
О.S. Shcherbinska, Г. О. Слабкий   +1 more
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A Critical Perspective on 50 Years of Evaluation Policy: Imagining a Framework for Better, Cheaper, Faster, Usable Evaluation

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT National evaluation policy in the United States has substantially improved over the past half century, yet honest assessment requires acknowledging where fundamental challenges persist. This article provides a policy perspective on structural failures in evaluation policy design, drawing on the author's experience helping lead the U.S ...
Nicholas R. Hart
wiley   +1 more source