Realism and resources: Towards more explanatory economic evaluation

Realism and resources: Towards more explanatory economic evaluation

To be successfully and sustainably adopted, policy-makers, service managers and practitioners want public programmes to be affordable and cost-effective, as well as effective. While the realist evaluation question is often summarised as what works for whom, under what circumstances, we believe the approach can be as salient to answering questions about resource use, costs and cost-effectiveness...

Conceptual Model Evaluation. Towards more Paradigmatic Rigor

Information Systems (IS) research has so far been primarily concerned with the development of new modeling languages, techniques, and methods. Also, evaluation approaches have been developed in order to assess the appropriateness of a modeling approach in a given context. Both modeling and evaluation approaches, however, lack epistemological rigor, leading to problems regarding the applicabilit...

Towards More Comprehensive Evaluation in Anaphora Resolution

Towards a More Resilient Society: Lessons from Economic Crises

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Structural Realism in a more complex world

The editors of the Review of International Studies have posed a timely challenge to what they term American realism. In broad terms, their editorial makes two points: first, realism has lost its relevance to current international policy; and second, realism does a poor job of explaining the behaviour of the world’s major powers. In this brief essay I argue that both of these points are greatly ...