Political science methods

Garson, G. David

Holbrook Press

Handbook of political science methods

Public administration: Concepts, readings, skills

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Allyn and Bacon

"Describes the quantitative research process--framing analytical questions, developing a comprehensive outline, providing a roadmap for the reader, and accessing indispensable computer and program tools. Supplies end-of-chapter checklists, extensive examples, and biobliographies."

Guide to Writing Empirical Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

Computers & Technology

CRC-Press

Data Analytics for the Social Sciences: Applications in R

Data Analytics for the Social Sciences is an introductory, graduate-level treatment of data analytics for social science. It features applications in the R language, arguably the fastest growing and leading statistical tool for researchers. 
The book starts with an ethics chapter on the uses and potential abuses of data analytics. Chapters 2 and 3 show how to implement a broad range of statistical procedures in R. Chapters 4 and 5 deal with regression and classification trees and with random forests. Chapter 6 deals with machine learning models and the "caret" package, which makes available to the researcher hundreds of models. Chapter 7 deals with neural network analysis, and Chapter 8 deals with network analysis and visualization of network data. A final chapter treats text analysis, including web scraping, comparative word frequency tables, word clouds, word maps, sentiment analysis, topic analysis, and more. All empirical chapters have two "Quick Start" exercises designed to allow quick immersion in chapter topics, followed by "In Depth" coverage. Data are available for all examples and runnable R code is provided in a "Command Summary". An appendix provides an extended tutorial on R and RStudio. Almost 30 online supplements provide information for the complete book, "books within the book" on a variety of topics, such as agent-based modeling. 
Rather than focusing on equations, derivations, and proofs, this book emphasizes hands-on obtaining of output for various social science models and how to interpret the output. It is suitable for all advanced level undergraduate and graduate students learning statistical data analysis.

Reference

Routledge

Power and Politics in the United States: A Political Economy Approach

Business & Money

Economics

D.C. Heath & Co.

Written by a leading scholar of public information systems, Public Information Technology and E-Governance is a comprehensive, well-balanced and up-to-date resource on public information technology and e-government. Based on thousands of academic and practitioner studies and reports, this book provides policy information on e-democracy, access issues, privacy, security, regulatory, enforcement and taxation issues, as well as management information on business plans, public-private partnerships, strategic planning, project management, implementation factors, and evaluation. An excellent text or reference, this book features several chapter case studies, a glossary, discussion questions, and chapter summaries to maximize comprehension of the subject.

Public Information Technology and E-Governance: Managing the Virtual State

Management & Leadership

Jones& Bartlett Learning

Public Information Technology is a comprehensive, well-balanced and up-to-date resource on public information technology and e-government. Written to reflect the rapidly changing state of the field, the Second Edition integrates leading social science theories into each chapter, including technological determinism, sociotechnical theory, systems theory, and reinforcement theory. It provides practical insight and additional coverage of the topics through case studies contributed by experts. There is a chapter on the history of public information technology legislation and executive action. Particular focus is given to U.S. federal IT policy and management, as well as information on state, local, and international policy and management. The information is presented with the critical discussions of security policy, causes of information technology failure in the public sector, and evaluating information technology projects, including public web portals. New to the Second Edition: • Elaboration on significant issues pertaining to network governance; • Cross organizational integration and interoperability; and enterprise architecture design, development, and management • Additional insights on the impact of information technology on government service delivery.

CANCELLED PRODUCT

Brown, Mary Maureen

Group Theories of Politics (SAGE Library of Social Research)

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Sage Publications, Inc.

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