How and why did evaluation research develop? How does it differ from other types of social science research?

What will be an ideal response?

Evaluation research is social research that is conducted for a distinctive purpose: to investigate social programs; the development of evaluation research as a major enterprise followed on the heels of the expansion of the federal government during the Great Depression and World War II; Depression-era government outlays for social programs stimulated interest in monitoring program output, and the military effort in World War II led to some of the necessary review and contracting procedures for sponsoring evaluation research.

Political Science

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Compare and contrast judicial self-restraint and judicial activism by analyzing how a proponent of each would have decided Brown v. Board of Education

What will be an ideal response?

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A __________ would be considered a dedicated fund

a. fund that has money set aside for it through a constitutional requirement b. program that must be funded annually and can be done from any number of sources c. fund that can be used at any time for any purpose by the state government d. program that can receive additional funding from charitable donations

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