Deploying Bhaskar's RRREIC and Pawson's CMOc

What is it about?

This article focuses on the design of a critical realist review that deployed Bhaskar’s resolution, redescribing, retroduction, eliminating, identifying, and correcting or RRREIC schema and Pawson and Tilley’s Context–Mechanism–Outcome configuration (CMOc) underpinned by realist social theory.

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Why is it important?

The article is important because it argues how the context component in Pawson's and Tilley's CMOc heuristic tends to consider context at a point in time rather than its development over time. Within program evaluation, understanding how phenomena has developed in a context over time can contribute to an explanation of how outcomes came to be and why they are so.