Measuring Law for Evaluation Research
Abstract
Evaluations that combine social science and law have tremendous potential to illuminate the effects of governmental policies and yield insights into how effectively policy makers' efforts achieve their aims. This potential is infrequently achieved, however, because such interdisciplinary research contains often overlooked substantive and methodological challenges. This article offers detailed guidance for conducting successful multidisciplinary evaluations that use legal data. It addresses major issues that commonly arise and offers practical solutions based both on the authors' extensive experience and recommended best practices developed in concert with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Public Health Law Research Program.
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- Authors
- Tremper, C., Thomas, S., & Wagenaar, A. C.
- Affiliations
- Perutilis Research & Consulting, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Pacific Institute For Research and Evaluation (US)
- University of Florida (US)
- Venue
- Evaluation Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-05-17
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 242-266
- ISSN
- 0145-4692 (ISSN-L)
- 0193-841X
- 1552-3926
- OpenAlex
- W2070947539
- Cited by
- 90
- References
- 19
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- FWCI
- 8.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Evaluation Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Public Policy and Administration Research
- Keywords
- legal data, policy evaluation, interdisciplinary analysis, public health law, legal methodology, evaluation methodology
- MeSH terms
- Evaluation Studies as Topic, Humans, Models, Theoretical, Public Health, Social Sciences, United States, Interdisciplinary Communication
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