Methods for policy research : taking socially responsible action /

A book about responsible and evidence-based decision making. This book describes how to define policy research questions so that evidence can be applied to them as well as how to find and synthesize existing evidence, generate new evidence if needed, make acceptable recommendations that can solve po...

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Main Authors: Majchrzak, Ann (Author), Markus, M. Lynne (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, Inc., [2014]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Applied social research methods series; v. 3.
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