Handbook Of Research Methods In Public Administration Book

	Preface
	Contributors
Pt. 1	The Big Picture
1	Introduction	1
2	Ethics in Systematic Research	3
3	Levels of Data, Variables, Hypotheses, and Theory	21
Pt. 2	Describing and Measuring Phenomena
4	Univariate Measures for Directly Measurable Phenomena	41
5	Typologies, Indexing, Content Analysis, Meta-Analysis, and Scaling as Measurement Techniques	51
Pt. 3	Data Collection and Manipulation
6	Questionnaire Construction	87
7	Sampling and Data Collection	99
8	Constructing Data Sets and Manipulating Data	125
Pt. 4	Research Issues and Design
9	Threats to Validity of Research Designs	145
10	Qualitative Research Methods: An Overview	167
Pt. 5	Association and Testing Hypothesis
11	Statistics for Nominal and Ordinal Data	207
12	Analysis of Variance	227
13	Linear Correlation and Regression	249
Pt. 6	Data Across Time
14	Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal, and Time-Series Data: Uses and Limitations	283
15	Forecasting Methods for Serial Data	301
16	Demographic Techniques for Cohort Analysis and Population Trends	353
Pt. 7	Techniques with Multiple Independent Variables
17	Multivariate Regression Analysis in Public Policy and Administration	377
18	Multivariate Techniques for Dichotomous Dependent Variables	409
Pt. 8	Modeling
19	Causal Modeling and Path Analysis	453
20	Economic Modeling	475
21	Computer Simulation	511
22	Data Envelopment Analysis: An Introduction	535
Pt. 9	Clustering Techniques
23	Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, and Cluster Analysis	549
24	Q Methodology	599
App. 1	Algebra	639
App. 2	Distribution of t	647
	Index	649