Table 1 Data extraction criteria
| Realist review - Pawson and Tilley [32] | Problem representation – Bacchi [33] |
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• Programme theory o Identification of the programme theory as a basis for understanding the intended policy pathway |
• What is the ‘problem’ represented to be? o How does the policy represent the problem under investigation? o How has this representation come about? o ‘The problem’ can be inferred from the proposed ‘solution’. |
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• Embedded o How (if at all) does the policy conceptualise the social systems in which the policies are being delivered? • Open systems o How (if at all) are externalities understood, identified and addressed in the policy? • Agency o How (if at all) is agency understood, identified and addressed in the policy? |
• Assumptions underpinning the representation of the problem o What are the presuppositions/ assumptions that underlie the representation and its concepts and categories? • Effects of problem representation o What effects are produced by this representation of the ‘problem’? |
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• Inequalities focus o How are inequalities addressed in the policy? What inequalities are addressed? How so the proposed pathways to change claim to reduce inequalities? |
• What is left unproblematic and how might the policy response differ o What is left unproblematic in this problem representation? Where are the silences? o Can the ‘problem’ be conceptualized differently? o What is left out of the problem representation? |