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  • Copyright: 2000-07-01
  • Publisher: Policy Pr
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Table of Contents

Foreword v
Ron Amann
Editors' preface viii
List of acronyms
x
List of contributors
xiii
Introduction
Introducing evidence-based policy and practice in public services
1(12)
Huw Davies
Sandra Nutley
Peter Smith
Evidence and the policy process
13(30)
Sandra Nutley
Jeff Webb
Part One: Analysis by service area
Healthcare: evidence to the fore
43(26)
Huw Davies
Sandra Nutley
Education: realising the potential
69(24)
Carol Fitz-Gibbon
Criminal justice: using evidence to reduce crime
93(24)
Sandra Nutley
Huw Davies
Social care: rhetoric and reality
117(24)
Geraldine Macdonald
Welfare policy: tendering for evidence
141(26)
Robert Walker
Housing: linking theory and practice
167(22)
Joe Doherty
Transport: beyond predict and provide
189(18)
Francis Terry
Urban policy: addressing wicked problems
207(22)
Tony Harrison
Part Two: Thematic analysis
A strategic approach to research and development
229(22)
Huw Davies
Gloria Laycock
Sandra Nutley
Judy Sebba
Trevor Sheldon
Debates on the role of experimentation
251(26)
Huw Davies
Sandra Nutley
Nick Tilley
Non-experimental quantitative methods
277(14)
John Hutton
Peter Smith
Contributions from qualitative research
291(26)
Philip Davies
Making a reality of evidence-based practice
317(34)
Sandra Nutley
Huw Davies
Concluding remarks
Learning from the past, prospects for the future
351(16)
Huw Davies
Sandra Nutley
Peter Smith
Index 367

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