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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.

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Author/Creator:

McNabb, David E.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Research methods in public administration and nonprofit management: quantitative and qualitative approaches [by McNabb, D.E.]

Subjects:

Public administration — Research — Methodology

Nonprofit organizations — Management

Public administration

Nonprofit organizations

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-438) and indexes.

Physical Description:

xxx, 458 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Call Numbers:

JF1338.A2 M38 2008

ISBNs:

9780765617675 (cloth, alk. paper)
0765617676 (cloth, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2007022267

OCLC Numbers:

138341360