This guide to information-finding sources and techniques is
attuned to the needs of researchers in all the social and
behavioral sciences with a particular focus on public
administration and related fields. This guide is unique in its
analyses of how to design the research process in an evolving
manner using approaches that reflect combinations of models,
methods, and data sources. This guide is also comprehensive in its
coverage of a broad spectrum of the important primary and secondary
source materials in all their current forms. Students and
researchers in the policy sciences, especially at the graduate
level, will find this research and reference guide an essential
one.
Simpson's broadly conceived guide covers sources and methods of
approach to doing social science research. The book opens with an
analysis of information-finding and public administration as a
special and disparate series of fields for study. Subsequent
chapters discuss research strategies and designs and offer
annotative bibliographies evaluating the usefulness of primary and
secondary sources, examining guides to the literature, the
conventional library catalog, journal literature, indexing and
abstracting services, computer searches, separately published
bibliographies, public statistics, machine-readable data files,
government documents, sources of methodology and research
instruments, other sources of information, archives and other
primary sources, and annual reviews. This topical and logically
developed set of chapters makes the guide easy to use, and a
general subject index makes this reference most accessible.
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