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_aBarzelay, Michael
245 1 0 _aLearning from Second-Hand Experience :
_bmethodology for extrapolation-oriented case research
260 _aMalden, MA :
_bBlackwell Publishing,
_cJuly 2007
520 3 _aCritics of public management reform complain that governments copy legitimated foreign practices. Recent work by Eugene Bardach helps to explain why: neither government analysts nor academic researchers possess an adequate methodology to examine practices in source sites, with a view toward adaptation in target sites. Rather than complain, Bardach takes steps to develop such a methodology, drawing analogies with reverse engineering. This article offers specific guidance about how researchers can effectively investigate practices in source sites to prepare the ground for disciplined and ingenious extrapolation of practices from source to target sites. The resulting translation is illustrated by an extrapolation-oriented case study
773 0 8 _tGovernance: an international journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions
_g20, 3, p. 521-543
_dMalden, MA : Blackwell Publishing, July 2007
_xISSN 14680491
_w
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_cTiago
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_cTiago
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
_bPHL2MARC21 1.1
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