Describing 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 andtheoretical application in the
past, present, and future, Handbook of Research Methods in Public
Administration, Second Edition gives you the tools to make informed
decisions.
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