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Policy Indicators - Links Between Social Science and Public Debate (Paperback, New edition)
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Policy Indicators - Links Between Social Science and Public Debate (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Urban and Regional Policy and Development Studies
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Duncan MacRae analyzes the ways in which experts can aid a
political community in choosing public statistics for citizens to
use in making policy judgments. In contrast to the study of social
indicators, which has emphasized descriptions and models of social
change, he stresses that the relevant measures should be selected
in view of their potential applications.
The usefulness of a public statistical series depends on the goals
it represents and on our knowledge of how to act collectively to
achieve those ends. The measures chosen, MacRae notes, can include
gauges of social objectives, such as health and education
improvements or crime reduction, and administrative inputs that
promote them. He recommends, however, that the measures should be
organized around general ends such as net economic benefit,
subjective well-being, and equity. Knowledge about how to further
collective aims, MacRae contends, requires strenthening of
"technical communities" of researchers who study the means to the
ends that policy indicators measure.
"Policy Indicators" provides a critical review of the field of
social indicators, stressing the uses of statistics in policy
debate. For applied social scientists and policy analysts, it
presents broad proposals for the roles of their fields in a
democracy.
Originally published in 1985.
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General
Imprint: |
The University of North Carolina Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Urban and Regional Policy and Development Studies |
Release date: |
2011 |
First published: |
July 2009 |
Authors: |
Duncan MacRae Jr
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
432 |
Edition: |
New edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8078-6565-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
Public administration
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LSN: |
0-8078-6565-6 |
Barcode: |
9780807865651 |
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