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020			_a9780849353840 (alk. paper)
041			_aEnglish.
082	0	0	_a351.072 _bHAN-
245	0	0	_aHandbook of research methods in public administration / _cedited by Kaifeng Yang, Gerald J. Miller.
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aBoca Raton : _bCRC Press, _c2008.
300			_axxix, 959p. _bill., maps ;
440		0	_aPublic administration and public policy ;
500			_aOriginally published: New York : M. Dekker, c1999.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aDescribing new techniques and novel applications, Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, Second Edition demonstrates the use of tools designed to meet the increased complexity of problems in government and non-profit organizations with ever-more rigorous and systematic research. It presents detailed information on conceptualizing, planning, and implementing research projects involving a wide variety of available methodologies. Providing a reference of systematic research methods, this second edition explains how these techniques aid in understanding traditional issues, and reveals how they might be applied to answer emerging theoretical and practical questions. Following a linear, logical organization, this handbook meets systematic goals and objectives through eight groups of chapters. The first group explains the logic of inquiry and the practical problems of locating existing research. The second group deals with research design and the third examines pitfalls in measurement and data collection. The authors give practical, considered advice in the fourth section to anticipate and solve data management problems. They include numerous illustrations to supplement two separate sections devoted to basic and advanced quantitative analysis. The seventh section covers unique analytical techniques used to gain insight specific to the non-market sector’s knotty problems. The final section addresses the impact of research and describes how to overcome illusive, tricky, and sizeable barriers to influence other researchers, decision makers, foundations, and grant making institutions. With a comprehensive survey of research methods and an examination of their practical and theoretical application in the past, present, and future, Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, Second Edition gives you the tools to make informed decisions.
546			_aEnglish.
650		0	_aPublic administration _xResearch _xMethodology.
700	1		_aYang, Kaifeng.
700	1		_aMiller, Gerald.
856	4	1	_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007018721.html
856	4	2	_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0728/2007018721-d.html
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