Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration
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Book Description
As the first book ever published for Public Administration statistics coursees, this successful text makes a difficult subject accessible to students and practitioners of public administration who have little background in statistics or research methods. Steeped in experience and practice, this landmark text remains the first and best in research methods and statistics for students and practitioners in public ? and nonprofit ? administration All statistical techniques used by public administration professionals are covered, and all the examples in the text relate to public administration and the nonprofit sector.
About the Author
Kenneth J. Meier (Ph.D., Syracuse) is currently the Charles Gregory Chair in Liberal Arts, professor of political science, Director of the Carlos Cantu Hispanic Education and Opportunity Endowment, and coordinator of the Project for Equity, Representation and Governance at Texas A&M University. Meier is also a professor of public sector management in the Cardiff School of Business, Cardiff University (Wales). He has served as president of the Public Management Research Association as well as the Public Administration, the Public Policy, and the State Politics sections of the American Political Science Association. He was a member and chair of the Oklahoma State Ethics and Merit Commission, and a member of the Governor's Commission on Professional Licensing and Discipline (Wisconsin) and the Task Force on Property and Liability Insurance (Wisconsin). He is the author or coauthor of several books, including APPLIED STATISTICS FOR PUBLIC AND NONPROFIT ADMINISTRATION (Thomson Wadsworth, 2006), THE POLITICS OF SIN: DRUGS, ALCOHOL, AND PUBLIC POLICY (M. E. Sharpe, 1994), and POLITICS, POLICY, AND ORGANIZATIONS (University of Michigan, 2003). Jeffrey L. Brudney is Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia. He is co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Nonprofit Organizations and the Master of Arts in Nonprofit Organizations (MNPO) program at Georgia. He received his B.A. degree in political science from the University of California at Berkeley and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, also in political science, from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Dr. Brudney has published widely in journals in political science, public administration, and nonprofit sector studies, and is a member of several editorial boards in these fields. He is the author of Fostering Volunteer Programs in the Public Sector: Planning, Initiating, and Managing Voluntary Activities (Jossey-Bass, 1990), for which he won the John Grenzebach Award for Outstanding Research in Philanthropy for Education. He received the Mentor Award from the Women?s Caucus for Political Science of the American Political Science Association ?in recognition of his exceptional guidance of women graduate students and junior faculty members.? Dr. Brudney has also received the Herbert Kaufman Award from the APSA, the Mosher Award from the Public Administration Review, and the Harriet Naylor Distinguished Member Service Award from the Association for Volunteer Administration (AVA). In 1994, he was selected as the Fulbright-Kahanoff Scholar at York University, Toronto, Canada. Dr. Brudney has served twice as chairperson of the American Society for Public Administration?s (ASPA) Section on Public Administration Education and twice as chairperson of the American Political Science Association?s (APSA) Section on Public Administration. John Bohte (Ph.D., Texas A&M) is currently assistant professor of political science and director of the Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin?Milwaukee. Bohte is a scholar of bureaucracy, public policy, and the budgeting process. Since retiring from the National Hockey League, he has published in PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW, the JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY, ADMINISTRATION & SOCIETY, the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, and the JOURNAL OF POLITICS.
Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration,Kenneth J. Meier,Jeffrey L. Brudney,John Bohte,Wadsworth Publishing,0534602681,General,Political Science,Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,Public Affairs & Administration,Public administration,Statistical methods,Statistics,Political Science / General,Politics & government
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