Perutilis Research & Consulting, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
Eval Rev. 2010 Jun;34(3):242-66. doi: 10.1177/0193841X10370018.
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.
评估将社会科学和法律相结合，具有巨大的潜力可以阐明政府政策的效果，并深入了解政策制定者的努力如何有效地实现其目标。然而，这种潜力很少得到实现，因为这种跨学科研究包含经常被忽视的实质性和方法学挑战。本文为使用法律数据进行成功的多学科评估提供了详细的指导。它解决了通常出现的主要问题，并根据作者的丰富经验以及与罗伯特伍德约翰逊基金会公共卫生法律研究计划共同制定的最佳实践提供了实际的解决方案。
