Examines the spread of evidence-based policy making across the Western world. This book explores the methodological assumptions that lie behind this drive for government departments, academic research projects and NGOs to adopt an 'evidence-based' approach, when so little has been done to ask what w...

Examines the spread of evidence-based policy making across the Western world. This book explores the methodological assumptions that lie behind this drive for government departments, academic research projects and NGOs to adopt an 'evidence-based' approach, when so little has been done to ask what works in an evidence-based context.