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Evaluative Research Methods:

Managing the Complexities
of Judgement in the Field

By: Saville Kushner

A volume in Evaluation and Society

Series Editor: Jennifer C. Greene, University of Illinois - Champaign
and Stewart I. Donaldson, Claremont Graduate University

This book is written for research students and their supervisors, for ‘program evaluators’, and for those researchers who don’t call
themselves evaluators, but whose research is evaluative. It is aimed, this is to say, at those whose research involves judgement - of policies,
practices or organization. Judgement of their value, merit or their appropriateness. The involvement of judgement changes the nature of
any research and makes particular demands on the researcher in terms of choice and use of method, ethics, political relationships and even
emotional capabilities. There are many methodological text-books and models to support the researcher to meet such challenges. This is
not one of those. Rather than teach a methodology or propose a model, this book helps you to think methodologically - i.e. to solve
methodological, political, emotional issues as they arise, using your own judgement and your own resources. There are no blueprints for
dealing with the ethics and the politics of evaluative research, there is only your ability to manage complexity and unpredictability. This
book supports you in developing just that. Since this is an intellectual challenge the book offers both theory and method combined, and is
laced with practical examples.

CONTENTS:
Publication Date: 2017
Acknowledgements
ISBNs: Outline of the Book
Paperback: 9781681236889 PART I: INTRODUCTIONS
Hardcover: 9781681236896 CHAPTER 1: What is Evaluative Research and How Are You Positioned Within It?
E-Book: 9781681236902 CHAPTER 2: Evaluative Enquiry and Democracy: Where It Came From and Where It Might Go
CHAPTER 3: Social Change and Evaluative Research
Paperback: $45.99 CHAPTER 4: Theorizing, Contingency, and Evaluative Cognition: Conceptual Tools to Help You Read the Book
PART II: THE CRAFT OF EVALUATIVE RESEARCH
Hardcover: $85.99
CHAPTER 5: The ‘Self’ and the ‘Person’: Democratic Individualism
Trim Size: 6.125 X 9.25 CHAPTER 6: Evaluative Interviewing
CHAPTER 7: Observation-Based Interviewing, Triangulation and the Redistribution of Power
Page Count: 298 CHAPTER 8: On Bullfighting, the Fragile Self, and an Introduction to Evaluative Case Study
CHAPTER 9: Analyzing Organization as an Evaluative Case
Subject: Evaluative Research, Evaluation, CHAPTER 10: Writing Democratically, and Finding Your Own Voice
Research Methods PART III: THE POLITICS OF EVALUATIVE RESEARCH: DANGERS IN THE FIELD
CHAPTER 11: Quieting Reform: When Evaluative Research Can Be Dangerous, with Robert Stake and Acacia Cochise
CHAPTER 12: Politics and Negotiation in Evaluative Enquiry
BIC Code: GPS CHAPTER 13: Evaluation Inside the Political System, With Barry Kushner
CHAPTER 14: Radical Manifestos for Evaluative Research
BISAC Codes: PART IV: CRITIQUES OF CURRENTLY POPULAR EVALUATION PRACTICES, THE WAY FORWARD
EDU037000 CHAPTER 15: Democracy, Theory, and Logic in Evaluative Research: Beware of Rationalism
CHAPTER 16: Democracy and Method in International Development Evaluation
EDU011000
CHAPTER 17: Arriving Backwards: Evaluative Enquiry, Innovation, and Democracy
EDU029000 References

ENDORSEMENT:

Here at last is a thoughtful and important effort to enlarge the theoretical and practical evaluative framework that includes consideration of the political environment. Part
history, part memoir, part technical guide, and part passionate advocacy, Saville Kushner has written a book that moves our field forward.
Eleanor Chelimsky

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