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Taylor & Francis Public Administration Research Methods Tools For Evaluation And Evidence-Based Practice 2Nd Edition by Warren S Eller and Brian J Gerber and Scott E Robinson
The best decisions made by public managers are based not on instinct, but on an informed understanding of what's happening on the ground. Policy may be directed by ideology, but it must also be founded on reality. The challenge of making the right decisions as a public manager is often, therefore, based on the need for rigorous, actionable research. Now in a thoughtfully revised second edition, this textbook shows students of Public Administration exactly how to use both qualitative and quantitative research techniques to give them the best chance to make the right decisions.
Uniquely, Eller, Gerber, and Robinson present research methodologies through a series of real-life case studies, wit...