What Works?: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Public Services

Ron Amann

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What Works?

Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Public Services

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Edited by Huw T. O. Davies, University of St Andrews, Sandra M. Nutley, University of St Andrews, Peter C. Smith, Imperial College London
Foreword by Ron Amann

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: September 2022
Print publication year:: 2000
Online ISBN:: 9781847425119
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781847425119

Subjects:: Politics: General Interest, Politics and International Relations

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This book provides a timely and novel contribution to the debate surrounding the role of 'evidence' in specific public policy areas. It explores the creation, dissemination and use of evidence within the areas of healthcare, education, criminal justice, social care, welfare, housing, transport and urban renewal.

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What Works?

Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Public Services

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Foreword
pp vii-ix

Editor’s preface
pp x-xi

List of acronyms
pp xii-xiv

List of contributors
pp xv-xvi

Introduction

one - Introducing evidence-based policy and practice in publicservices
pp 1-12

two - Evidence and the policy process
pp 13-41

Part One - Analysis by service area
pp 42-42

three - Healthcare: evidence to the fore
pp 43-68

four - Education: realising the potential
pp 69-92

five - Criminal justice: using evidence to reduce crime
pp 93-116

six - Social care: rhetoric and reality
pp 117-140

seven - Welfare policy: tendering for evidence
pp 141-166

eight - Housing: linking theory and practice
pp 167-186

nine - Transport: beyond predict and provide
pp 187-206

ten - Urban policy: addressing wicked problems
pp 207-228

Part Two - Thematic analysis

eleven - A strategic approach to research and development
pp 229-250

twelve - Debates on the role of experimentation
pp 251-276

thirteen - Non-experimental quantitative methods
pp 277-290

fourteen - Contributions from qualitative research
pp 291-316

fifeteen - Making a reality of evidence-based practice
pp 317-350

Concluding remarks

sixteen - Learning from the past, prospects for the future
pp 351-366

Index
pp 367-379

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