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Policy process theory development: Perspectives from European junior scholars
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.Abstract The development of policy process theories is progressing rapidly. Scholars increasingly apply these theories originated in the US to different contexts and continents, such as Europe. Furthermore, scholars at different career stages, including junior scholars, work on and with these theories.
Sandra Plümer +2 more
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Care home quality and 'inappropriate' emergency healthcare use-failing to engage with complexity. [PDF]
Age AgeingHarrad-Hyde F, Burton JK.
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Rapid Reconnaissance: Seeking Immediate Results
New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article aims to reorient evaluators to a methodology that has perhaps been overlooked in recent years but whose methods are likely to be used, at least in part. Rapid reconnaissance emerged in sociological and rural research in the 1960s as a fast data‐gathering and process evaluation tool that relies on multidisciplinary teams and ...
Sarah Murray, Lyn Alderman
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Reasoning in Evaluation: Why Does It Matter?
New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article addresses two significant philosophical debates of importance to the evaluation context, which have transcended science and social sciences for centuries. These debates center around philosophical approaches and approaches to reasoning as they relate to evaluation.
Benjamin Harris, Lyn Alderman
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The Nordic model fails to protect vulnerable children. [PDF]
Lancet Reg Health EurSkalická V, Eikemo TA.
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Classic Methodologies: Why They Still Matter
New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While recognizing the importance of innovative, new approaches to evaluation, the guest editors and authors present this special issue of New Directions for Evaluation, urging evaluators to revisit established methodologies to address the growing complexity and ambiguity of today's wicked problems and indeed any problem they are commissioned ...
Benjamin Harris, Julianne Kealey
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What Is the Role of Imagined Futures in the Development of E-Cigarette Use among Young People? [PDF]
SociologyHughes J +6 more
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Environmental Scanning: A Look to the Future
New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental scanning was originally conceived as a continuous evaluation methodology that identified internal and external trends that might impact an organization's success in the present and future. Best approached holistically and inductively, environmental scanning draws upon internal and external sources of information to determine the ...
Benjamin Harris, Jennifer Brooker
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Changes in life satisfaction over six years in the general population: A longitudinal study with the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS). [PDF]
PLoS OneHinz A +6 more
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(Im)mobile intimacies: Commodities and marriage at the crossroads of Asia
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article follows traders and entrepreneurs that live and work between Kyrgyzstan and China's northwestern region of Xinjiang. Looking specifically at Islamic marriage and business partnerships forged between persecuted Uyghurs and their Uzbek partners, it argues that commodity‐mediated forms of transnational intimacy create spaces of ...
Grace H. Zhou
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