What works? : evidence-based policy and practice in public services /

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"What counts is what works -- but how can we actually tell what works? And what can we do with such knowledge to influence policy and practice? As all parts of the public sector embrace 'evidence' as a means of providing more effective and efficient public services, this book provides...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nutley, Sandra M. (Editor ), Smith, Peter (Peter C.) (Editor ), Davies, H. T. O. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : The Policy Press, 2000.
Temas:
County services > Great Britain.
Municipal services > Great Britain.
Evidence-based medicine.
Evidence-Based Practice
Evidence-Based Medicine
Services de comté > Grande-Bretagne.
Services municipaux > Grande-Bretagne.
Médecine factuelle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
Evidence-based medicine
County services
Municipal services
Overheidsmanagement.
Empirisch sociaal onderzoek.
Efficiëntie.
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introducing evidence-based policy and practice in public services / Huw Davies, Sandra Nutley, Peter Smith
  • 2. Evidence and the policy process / Sandra Nutley, Jeff Webb
  • 3. Healthcare : evidence to the fore / Huw Davies, Sandra Nutley
  • 4. Education : realising the potential / Carol Fitz-Gibbon
  • 5. Criminal justice : using evidence to reduce crime / Sandra Nutley, Huw Davies
  • 6. Social care : rhetoric and reality / Geraldine Macdonald
  • 7. Welfare policy : tendering for evidence / Robert Walker
  • 8. Housing : linking theory and practice / Joe Doherty
  • 9. Transport : beyond predict and provide / Francis Terry
  • 10. Urban policy : addressing wicked problems / Tony Harrison
  • 11. A strategic approach to research and development / Huw Davies, Gloria Laycock, Sandra Nutley, Judy Sebba, Trevor Sheldon
  • 12. Debates on the role of experimentation / Huw Davies, Sandra Nutley, Nick Tilley
  • 13. Non-experimental quantitative methods / John Hutton, Peter Smith
  • 14. Contributions from qualitative research / Philip Davies
  • 15. Making a reality of evidence-based practice / Sandra Nutley, Huw Davies
  • 16. Learning from the past, prospects for the future / Huw Davies, Sandra Nutley, Peter Smith.

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