Exploring the Missing Links between Cause and Effect: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Micro–Macro Conversions in Programme Evaluation

Evaluation

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-91

  Virtanen, Petri ^a   Uusikylä, Petri ^a  

^a Net Effect Ltd   (Finland)

Author keywords

causality; evaluation paradigms; micro macro conversion; programme evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747130228     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: 14617153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356389004043136     Document Type: Article

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