Methodological challenges in the implementation and evaluation of social welfare policies |
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Authors: | Katarina Andersson |
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Institution: | Ume? Centre for Gender Studies/Department of Social Work , Ume? University , Ume?, Sweden |
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Abstract: | As social reality is quite elusive, even regarding seemingly well-recognized everyday concepts and objects, there are always methodological challenges underlying assessments and evaluations of implementation policies. The present article addresses this area of concern by presenting the results of a rereading of an empirical study of elderly home care services. Our results reveal the emergence of a dissolution of common and professional key concepts and objects in these welfare services to a degree that challenges both the implementation policy and the evaluation of policy. We claim that this has methodological implications for evaluation of implementation policies in general. |
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Keywords: | shadowing ecological analysis boundary object (re)negotiation time intervention needs gender elderly care evaluation implementation policy |
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