Our principal objectives are to describe and explain a process of management reform. We achieve this mainly (though not exclusively) by analysing a mass of case study material - much of it our own, but some of it drawn from the work of others. Such analysis cannot proceed wihout , first, aset of organishing concepts and, second, some guiding theory or theories.
This book is designed to cover materials required for research methods courses in MPA programs certified by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPA). It is also appropriate for traditional social science methods courses if the instructor wishes ti use material focusing on examples and applications from the public policy area.
The original volume grew out of a seminar taugh by Mitchell Sellingson at the University of Arizona. In preparing for the seminar while on sabbatical at the University of Essex in England, he recognize that there was a great deal of research addressing the two questions posed above, and he attempted to organized that material for his students. In addition, the most recent theoretical and empiri…
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