Preface; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Ethics in Systematic Research; Levels of Data, Variables, Hypotheses, and Theory; Univariate Measures for Directly Measurable Phenomena; Typologies, Indexing, Content Analysis, Meta-Analysis, and Scaling as Measurement Techniques; Questionnaire Construction; Sampling and Data Collection; Constructing Data Sets and Manipulating Data; Threats to Validity of Research Designs; Qualitative Research Methods: An Overview; Statistics for Nominal and Ordinal Data; Analysis of Variance; Linear Correlation and Regression.
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Offers investigators and practitioners a variety of quantitative methods used for research in public administration, public policy and non-profit management, including theory-building and -testing.
OverDrive, Inc.
Handbook of research methods in public administration.
0824702131
Public administration-- Research-- Methodology.
Bestuurskunde.
Onderzoeksmethoden.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- Executive Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Affairs & Administration.