Theory Of Change
6 posts tagged with “Theory Of Change”
Research Updates
The Sunlight Hypothesis
The previous posts in this series established why the deficit model fails as an account of how dashboard users engage with performance data, and the competing theories of change analysis examined the...
From Deficit Models to Sense-Making
This article draws on an interpretivist analysis of public sector dashboard strategy, treating dashboards as socio-technical systems embedded in organisational and political contexts rather than...
The Politics of Performance Transparency
The series introduction established that public sector performance dashboards function as policy instruments, and the previous post examined how different dashboard designs constitute different...
How Dashboards Constitute Publics: A Theoretical Framework
This post develops the theoretical argument introduced in the series introduction on dashboards as policy instruments: that public-sector performance dashboards do not merely serve pre-existing...
Dashboards as Policy Instruments
Performance dashboards in the public sector do not arrive without genealogy. As Leoni (2022) documents, the importance attached to data in public governance "might be the result of a longstanding...
What Works, for Whom, in What Circumstances? Realist Evaluation and Design's Theory of Change
In a previous post I worked through von Busch and Palmås's (2023) Realdesign propositions against my experience at SCÖ, and the exercise left me with a question I could not answer within their...