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Research methods in public administration and nonprofit management : quantitative and qualitative approaches /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McNabb, David E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2008.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Public administration > Research > Methodology.
Nonprofit organizations > Management.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • List of tables, figures, and boxes
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Introduction
  • Research fundamentals
  • Introduction to research methods
  • Research ethics: doing the right thing
  • The building blocks of research
  • Public administration research: theory and practice
  • Research in nonprofit organizations
  • Understanding the research process
  • The eight steps of the research process
  • Selecting a research topic
  • Choosing a research design
  • Putting together a research proposal
  • Quantitative research strategies
  • Fundamentals of quantitative research
  • Introduction to sampling
  • Writing questions and developing questionnaires
  • Quantitative research methods
  • Summarizing data with descriptive statistics
  • Using tables, charts, and graphs
  • Research hypotheses
  • Testing hypotheses about two or more groups
  • Testing relationships with correlation and regression
  • Experiments and experimental design
  • Nonparametric statistics
  • Exploring multivariate statistics
  • Conducting statistical tests with SPSS
  • Qualitative research strategies and methods
  • Introduction to qualitative research
  • Research using the case study approach
  • Research using the grounded theory approach
  • Research using the ethnographic approach
  • Critical research: action research approaches
  • Critical research: empowerment and feminist models
  • Analysis and interpretation of qualitative data
  • Analyzing qualitative data
  • Analyzing texts, documents, and artifacts
  • Preparing the research report
  • Writing the research report
  • References
  • Author index
  • Subject index
  • About the author.