Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation

Contents: Foreword 1. Introduction: Evaluation as an instrument in social policy Bent Greve PART I WHAT IS EVALUATION - AND EXAMPLES OF METHODS 2. Randomized Controlled Trials Robert Boruch, Rui Yang, Jordan M. Hyatt and Herbert Turner III 3. Quasi-Experimental Comparison Group Designs for Social Policy Evaluation Christoph E. Mueller and Hansjoerg Gaus 4. Social Return on Investment (SROI), Including Elements on Cost-Benefit Analysis Massimo Costa 5. There are many (well, more than one) paths to Nirvana: The economic evaluation of social policies Anthony E. Boardman and Aidan R. Vining 6. Systematic reviews in Social Policy Evaluation Trude Sundberg 7. Participatory evaluation Liz Richardson PART II EVALUATION AND POLICY 8. Evidence-based policymaking (EBPM) Kat Smith and Tina Haux 9. Use and misuse of evaluation in social policy Christopher Deeming 10. Challenges for Policy Makers: Accountability and Cost-effectiveness Kellie Liket 11. Policy, practice and difference within welfare regimes: Evidence from the UK Jon Warren and Jonathan Wistow 12. Performance Management and Evaluation Morten Balle Hansen 13. Critical Perspectives on using evidence in social policy Peter Dahler-Larsen 14. Social Impact Bonds - Evidence-based policy or ideology? Michael J. Roy, Neil McHugh and Stephen Sinclair PART III EVALUATION OF CONCRETE SOCIAL POLICY AREAS 15. Heath Care - Evaluating the Overall System Sara Evans-Lacko and Martin Knapp 16. The Evaluation of New Medicines Michael Calnan and Tom Douglass 17. Evaluating long-term care policies: challenges and advancements Ricardo Rodrigues 18. Labour Market Werner Eichhorst and Regina Konle-Seidl 19. Ideology or evidence base? The role of work capability assessments for people with disabilities in UK welfare to work programmes David Etherington 20. Integration Anniken Hagelund and Hanne Cecilie Kavli 21. Evaluating interventions for children, young people, and families: Theory, evidence, policy, and lessons learnt Julian Edbrooke-Childs, Dawid Gondek, Isabelle Whelan, Jenna Jacob, Matt Barnard, Helen Gleeson, Makeda Gerressu, Monica Lakhanpaul, Caroletha Irish, Emma Cassells, Khyati Bakhai and Miranda Wolpert 22. The Matthew Effect Redux. Going beyond the mean in evaluating family policies Wim Van Lancker 23. Eight attention points when evaluating large-scale public sector reforms Morten Balle Hansen, Karen Nielsen Breidahl, Jan-Eric Furubo , Anne Halvorsen 24. Poverty interventions M. Azhar Hussain 25. How understanding research as consumer object can shed new light on evidence informed policy and practice in education Chris Brown 26. Conclusion Bent Greve Index

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• Teoria social
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