Evidence-based Policy: The Promise of `Realist Synthesis'
By R. Pawson. 2002
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Subfields: General Health Professions, Management Science and Operations Research
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- Social isolation, loneliness and health in old age: a scoping review (2017, methodology): “…Elderly Mental disorder Elder people Well-being Old age Well-being Older people Depression Old people © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd800 Charting the data, summarising and reporting the findings We used the ‘narrative review’ approach to collect similar information on all studies (Pawson 2002).”
- Globalisation, knowledge economy and comparative education (2005, background): “The distinction made by Ray Pawson ( 2002 ) between ‘Programmes’ and ‘Programme Ontologies’ very helpful.”
- A Qualitative Approach to Evidence–Based Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Considerations and an Example Involving Business Clusters (2014, result): “Since this approach assumes that theory leads to prediction and that theory represents that proportion of reality that is within the scope of the theory, the results of different studies within this scope can be compared and synthesized in an evidence-based approach (Pawson, 2002; Tourish, 2012).”
- Realist review (2021, background): “Based on positivist and successionist logic, the typical focus of a traditional systematic review is to judge the effectiveness of an intervention (Pawson, 2002).”
- Payment by results and social impact bonds in the criminal justice sector: New challenges for the concept of evidence-based policy? (2011, methodology): “Focusing on the use of meta-analysis Pawson (2002a) puts forward a number of objections.”
- Creating the Future Together: Toward a Framework for Research Synthesis in Entrepreneurship (2014, background): “Although there is some variety in the definition and description of mechanisms, the following four characteristics are almost always present (Hedström & Ylikoski, 2010; Pawson, 2002; Ylikoski, 2012).”
- Reframing Teacher Professional Learning: An Alternative Policy Approach to Strengthening Valued Outcomes for Diverse Learners (2008, background): “An influential contributor to the English approach to systematic review has been Pawson (2002), whose advocacy of realist synthesis has emphasized the importance of theory development to explain particular findings to inform their use and adaptation in different contexts.”