Public Administration Research Methods: Tools for Evaluation and Evidence-Based Practice - Softcover

Eller, Warren S; Gerber, Brian J; Robinson, Scott E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415895308 ISBN 13: 9780415895309

Verlag: Routledge, 2013

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Book by Eller Warren Gerber Brian J Robinson Scott E

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"Eller, Gerber, and Robinson have written an accessible and skills based text for 21st century students. They clearly explain why research skills are important, including both quantitative and qualitative methods, and then deftly incorporate case studies to not only develop particular skill sets but also to illustrate how these skills are relevant for the workplace. This text presents a real challenge to the existing texts in the marketplace."

--Donald Haider-Markel, University of Kansas

"Developing a research methods textbook for Public Administration can be a daunting task, but the authors of Public Administration Research Methods: Tools for Evaluation and Evidence-Based Practice have done an excellent job of making the material approachable for students, relevant to professionals, and still appropriately rigorous. I strongly endorse this textbook."

--Skip Krueger, University of North Texas

"This book provides key concepts and methods to address the growing need for data-driven decision-making. The content is presented clearly and conveys essential aspects of statistical and other research procedures."

--Mack Shelley, Iowa State University

"Public Administration Research Methods would be a wonderful guidance textbook for students who want to build a strong foundation of research techniques and know the proper direction of quantitative and qualitative research analyses. The book's various empirical case study examples help students to understand the practical application of research analysis."

--Edward Kwon, Northern Kentucky University

"Public Administration Research Methods: Tools for Evaluation and Evidence-Based Practice provides students of public management with broad coverage of the basic tools for conducting research in understandable style and with lots of interesting everyday life examples."

--Augustine Hammond, Augusta State University

Reseña del editor:

Students intending to manage public organizations – ranging from local city offices to nonprofit organizations to many other types of organizations – have a specific set of needs from a methods course. These individuals will need exposure to a wide range of research tools and sufficient comprehension of these tools to read the results of research critically. Increasingly, managers are also finding it necessary to conduct their own research to address their organization’s needs – that is, practicing evidence-based management. Research Methods for Evidence-Based Public Management address the needs of these practice-oriented students for a toolbox of public management research.

Eller, Gerber, and Robinson guide the reader through critical issues such as the research process itself, by presenting intuitive explanations of difficult concepts, and by explaining not only techniques of qualitative research, but how qualitative data can be analyzed properly and how those data relate to quantitative data gathering and analytic techniques. Students can expect to come away from reading this text with a clear understanding of how qualitative and quantitative analysis can be explicitly tied to evidence-based public management decision-making. The text will develop a small number of detailed, reoccurring cases across chapters to provide students with a continuing stream of familiar examples to illustrate the practical enactment of the skills developed within the textbook.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0415895308
• ISBN 13: 9780415895309
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 436