Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“kenneth meier”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kenneth meier”
Skip side bar filters

  • What Works

    A New Approach To Program And Policy Analysis

    by Kenneth Meier ...
    What Works is a concise methods text that represents a new approach for policy program analysis. The authors, Meier and Gill, combine statistics with normative concerns. They consider how things might be, and they focus on subsets of cases that differ from the norm. Their approach uses regression and methods in a qualitative, yet rigorous manner.In What Works, the authors address questions such as ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Race and Public Administration

    Edited by Amanda Rutherford, Kenneth Meier ...
    Issues of race permeate virtually every corner of policy creation and implementation in the United States, yet theoretically driven research on interactions of policy, race, and ethnicity rarely offers practical tools that can be readily applied by current and future civil servants, private contractors, or nonprofit boards. Arguing that scholarship can and should inform practice to address issues ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Mostly Harmless Econometrics

    An Empiricist's Companion

    by Joshua D. Angrist, Jörn-Steffen Pischke ...
    The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes. In the modern experimentalist paradigm, these techniques address clear causal questions such as: Do smaller classes increase learning? Should wife batterers be ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Mastering 'Metrics

    The Path from Cause to Effect

    by Joshua D. Angrist, Jörn-Steffen Pischke ...
    From Joshua Angrist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Jörn-Steffen Pischke, an accessible and fun guide to the essential tools of econometric researchApplied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion and with a dose ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation for Non-Experts

    by Howard Silverstone, Michael Sheetz ...
    A must-have reference for every business professional, Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation for Non-Experts, Second Edition is a necessary tool for those interested in understanding how financial fraud occurs and what to do when you find or suspect it within your organization. With comprehensive coverage, it provides insightful advice on where an organization is most susceptible to fraud. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Choices, Values, and Frames

    Edited by Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky ...
    This book presents the definitive exposition of 'prospect theory', a compelling alternative to the classical utility theory of choice. Building on the 1982 volume, Judgement Under Uncertainty, this book brings together seminal papers on prospect theory from economists, decision theorists, and psychologists, including the work of the late Amos Tversky, whose contributions are collected here for the ... Read more

    $88.59 USD

  • Public Policy Analysis

    An Integrated Approach

    by William N. Dunn ...
    Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology of policy analysis. It starts from the premise that policy analysis is an applied social science discipline designed for solving practical problems facing public and nonprofit organizations. This thoroughly revised sixth edition contains a number of important updates:Each chapter ... Read more

    $150.00 USD

  • The Fundamentals of Political Science Research

    by Paul M. Kellstedt, Guy D. Whitten ...
    The third edition of the best-selling The Fundamentals of Political Science Research provides an introduction to the scientific study of politics. It offers the basic tools necessary for readers to become both critical consumers and beginning producers of scientific research on politics. The authors present an integrated approach to research design and empirical analyses whereby researchers can ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Surveys In Social Research

    by David De Vaus, David De Vaus ...
    Series series Social Research Today
    David de Vaus' classic text Surveys in Social Research provides clear advice on how to plan, conduct and analyse social surveys. It emphasises the links between theory and research, the logic and interpretation of statistics and the practices of social research. This sixth edition has been completely revised and updated, and contains new examples, data and extensive lists of web resources.As well ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Applying Social Statistics

    An Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning in Sociology

    by Jay Weinstein ...
    While Applying Social Statistics is "about" social statistics and includes all of the topics generally covered in similar texts, it is first and foremost a book about how sociologists use statistics. Its emphasis is on statistical reasoning in sociology and on showing how these principles can be applied to numerous problems in a wide variety of contexts; to answer effectively the question "what's ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation for Non-Experts

    by Stephen Pedneault, Frank Rudewicz, Howard Silverstone, Michael Sheetz ...
    Fully revised, the proven primer on forensic accounting with all-new casesA must-have reference for every business professional, Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation for Non-Experts, Third Edition is a necessary tool for those interested in understanding how financial fraud occurs and what to do when you find or suspect it within your organization. With comprehensive coverage, it provides ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • Neighbor Networks

    Competitive Advantage Local and Personal

    by Ronald S. Burt ...
    There is a moral to this book, a bit of Confucian wisdom often ignored in social network analysis: "Worry not that no one knows you, seek to be worth knowing." This advice is contrary to the usual social network emphasis on securing relations with well-connected people. Neighbor Networks examines the cases of analysts, bankers, and managers, and finds that rewards, in fact, do go to people with ... Read more

    $28.99 USD