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  • Homicide Data Sources

    An Interdisciplinary Overview for Researchers

    by Adam Dobrin ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This Brief provides a detailed guide to national data sources that collect and report data on homicides in the United States, and some key international sources abroad. It provides in-depth coverage of well-known sources, and highlights more obscure sources, providing a useful tool for research design and planning across disciplines.This Brief includes detailed discussions of the benchmark sources ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Political Analysis Using R

    by James E. Monogan III ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book provides a narrative of how R can be useful in the analysis of public administration, public policy, and political science data specifically, in addition to the social sciences more broadly. It can serve as a textbook and reference manual for students and independent researchers who wish to use R for the first time or broaden their skill set with the program. While the book uses data ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Practicing Professional Ethics in Economics and Public Policy

    Edited by Donald R. Searing, Elizabeth Searing ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume explores the professional ethics of addresses the varied ethical needs of the professional economists and public policy professionals. Using terms and methods familiar to the reader, the book goes beyond the typical narrative of economics and morality to walk the professional through the process of ethical decision-making. Designed to be easy to navigate and applicable to everyday ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Indicators in Global Governance

    Edited by Debora Valentina Malito, Gaby Umbach, Nehal Bhuta ...
    This volume brings together both academic and institutional perspectives to examine the production, use and contestation of indicators in global governance. It provides a unique and comprehensive guide to the latest research in the study of indicators and their use in global governance and policy making. The editors provide a guide to the recent vast body of literature and practice on measuring ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • The New CEOs

    Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies

    by Richard L. Zweigenhaft, G. William Domhoff ...
    The New CEOs looks at the women and people of color leading Fortune 500 companies, exploring the factors that have helped them achieve success and their impact on the business world and society more broadly. As recently as fifteen years ago, there had only been three women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and no African Americans. By now there have been more than 100 women, African American, Latino, ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments

    A Data-Driven Approach

    by Joan-Josep Vallbé ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book deals with the theoretical, methodological, and empirical implications of bounded rationality in the operation of institutions. It focuses on decisions made under uncertainty, and presents a reliable strategy of knowledge acquisition for the design and implementation of decision-support systems. Based on the distinction between the inner and outer environment of decisions, the book ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Washington State Census Board and Its Demographic Legacy

    by David A. Swanson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book tells the story of how a group of far-sighted, academic researchers came to the aid of an overwhelmed local government. It details the history of the Washington State Census Board, which began in 1943 as part of an emergency measure during a massive wartime in-migration. The narrative also shows the demographic legacy of the Board and, ultimately, provides an unforgettable look into the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Applying Public Opinion in Governance

    The Uses and Future of Public Opinion in Managing Government

    by Scott Edward Bennett ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores how public opinion is used to design, monitor and evaluate government programmes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Using information collected from the media and from international practitioners in the public opinion field, as well as interviews in each of the 4 countries, the author describes how views of public opinion and governance differ ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Statistical Tools for Program Evaluation

    Methods and Applications to Economic Policy, Public Health, and Education

    by Jean-Michel Josselin, Benoît Le Maux ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides a self-contained presentation of the statistical tools required for evaluating public programs, as advocated by many governments, the World Bank, the European Union, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. After introducing the methodological framework of program evaluation, the first chapters are devoted to the collection, elementary description and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Survey Research

    Edited by David L. Vannette, Jon A. Krosnick ...
    This handbook is a comprehensive reference guide for researchers, funding agencies and organizations engaged in survey research. Drawing on research from a world-class team of experts, this collection addresses the challenges facing survey-based data collection today as well as the potential opportunities presented by new approaches to survey research, including in the development of policy. It ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature

    by Matthew L. Jockers ...
    Series series Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
    Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature is written with students and scholars of literature in mind but will be applicable to other humanists and social scientists wishing to extend their methodological tool kit to include quantitative and computational approaches to the study of text. Computation provides access to information in text that we simply cannot gather using traditional ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Politics of Favoritism in Public Procurement in Turkey

    Reconfigurations of Dependency Networks in the AKP Era

    by Esra Çeviker Gürakar ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book, through an analysis of 49,355 high value public procurement contracts awarded between 2004 and 2011, provides systematic evidence on favoritism in public procurement in Turkey. Public procurement is one of the main areas where the government and the private sector interact extensively and is thus open to favoritism and corruption. In Turkey, the new Public Procurement Law, which was ... Read more

    $53.99 USD