Evidence Based Public Management

Author : Anna Shillabeer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317470893
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evidence-Based Public Management written by Anna Shillabeer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence-based management (EBMgt) derives principles of good management from scientific research, meta-analysis, literature reviews, and case studies, and then translates them into practice. This book is the first systematic assessment of EBMgt and its potential application in public management.

Author : Evan Ringquist
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118190130
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meta-Analysis for Public Management and Policy written by Evan Ringquist and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meta-Analysis for Public Management and Policy is a groundbreaking book that includes a proven set of tools for making sense of mountains of sometimes inconsistent conclusions from original research. The tools of meta-analysis can help to improve scholarship, ensure more accurate tests of theories, provide clearer and more authoritative advice for policy and management, and ultimately contribute to the wider knowledge base of public management and policy and the social sciences more broadly. This important resource contains an in-depth explanation of the six-stage process for conducting a meta-analysis which consists of Scoping, Literature Search, Data Coding, Calculating and Combining Effect Sizes, Explaining Differences in Effect Sizes Across Original Studies, and Identifying Areas for Further Research. The text includes detailed explanations of the statistical approaches to meta-analysis that have been found to be most useful to researchers and practitioners in public management and policy, and offers four original meta-analyses of school vouchers, performance measurement, public housing decentralization, and public service motivation. These original studies (conducted by the author and his team) offer step-by-step templates for how to conduct a meta-analysis while also contributing original research on important issues in public management and policy. Meta-Analysis for Public Management and Policy is the hands-on resource that can help students and professionals improve the quality and the relevance of research in public management and policy.

Author : Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139502875
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Management written by Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How effective are public managers as they seek to influence how public organizations deliver policy results? How, and how much, is management related to the performance of public programs? What aspects of management can be distinguished? Can their separable contributions to performance be estimated? The fate of public policies in today's world lies in the hands of public organizations, which in turn are often intertwined with others in latticed patterns of governance. Collectively, these organizations are expected to generate performance in terms of policy outputs and outcomes. In this book, two award-winning researchers investigate the effectiveness of management in the public sector. Firstly, they develop a systematic theory on how effective public managers are in shaping policy results. The rest of the book then tests this theory against a wide range of evidence, including a data set of 1,000 public organizations.

Author : Oliver James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110716205X
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experiments in Public Management Research written by Oliver James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of experimental research and methods in public management, and their impact on theory, research practices and substantive knowledge.

Author : Justin Parkhurst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131738086X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Evidence written by Justin Parkhurst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how this influences the ways in which evidence will be used (or misused) within political areas. This book provides new insights into the nature of political bias with regards to evidence and critically considers what an ‘improved’ use of evidence would look like from a policymaking perspective. Part I describes the great potential for evidence to help achieve social goals, as well as the challenges raised by the political nature of policymaking. It explores the concern of evidence advocates that political interests drive the misuse or manipulation of evidence, as well as counter-concerns of critical policy scholars about how appeals to ‘evidence-based policy’ can depoliticise political debates. Both concerns reflect forms of bias – the first representing technical bias, whereby evidence use violates principles of scientific best practice, and the second representing issue bias in how appeals to evidence can shift political debates to particular questions or marginalise policy-relevant social concerns. Part II then draws on the fields of policy studies and cognitive psychology to understand the origins and mechanisms of both forms of bias in relation to political interests and values. It illustrates how such biases are not only common, but can be much more predictable once we recognise their origins and manifestations in policy arenas. Finally, Part III discusses ways to move forward for those seeking to improve the use of evidence in public policymaking. It explores what constitutes ‘good evidence for policy’, as well as the ‘good use of evidence’ within policy processes, and considers how to build evidence-advisory institutions that embed key principles of both scientific good practice and democratic representation. Taken as a whole, the approach promoted is termed the ‘good governance of evidence’ – a concept that represents the use of rigorous, systematic and technically valid pieces of evidence within decision-making processes that are representative of, and accountable to, populations served.

Author : Anna Shillabeer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780765624208
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evidence-based Public Management written by Anna Shillabeer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence-based management (EBMgt) derives principles of good management from scientific research, meta-analysis, literature reviews, and case studies, and then translates them into practice. This book is the first systematic assessment of EBMgt and its potential application in public management.

Author : Ewan Ferlie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019922644X
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Public Management written by Ewan Ferlie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world and in the last thirty years there have been major shifts in approaches to its management. This text identifies the trends in public management and the effects these have had, as well as providing a broad overview to each topic.

Author : Nutley, Sandra M.
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1861341911
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Works? written by Nutley, Sandra M. and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2000-07-19 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how the knowledge gained from research is used to improve the effectiveness of public policy formation and public service delivery. It covers eight areas of public service - health, education, criminal justice, social policy, transport, urban policy, housing and social care.

Author : Warren S. Eller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415895309
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Administration Research Methods written by Warren S. Eller and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students intending to manage public organizations – ranging from local city offices to nonprofit organizations to many other types of organizations – have a specific set of needs from a methods course. These individuals will need exposure to a wide range of research tools and sufficient comprehension of these tools to read the results of research critically. Increasingly, managers are also finding it necessary to conduct their own research to address their organization’s needs – that is, practicing evidence-based management. Research Methods for Evidence-Based Public Management address the needs of these practice-oriented students for a toolbox of public management research. Eller, Gerber, and Robinson guide the reader through critical issues such as the research process itself, by presenting intuitive explanations of difficult concepts, and by explaining not only techniques of qualitative research, but how qualitative data can be analyzed properly and how those data relate to quantitative data gathering and analytic techniques. Students can expect to come away from reading this text with a clear understanding of how qualitative and quantitative analysis can be explicitly tied to evidence-based public management decision-making. The text will develop a small number of detailed, reoccurring cases across chapters to provide students with a continuing stream of familiar examples to illustrate the practical enactment of the skills developed within the textbook.

Author : Kathryn Newcomer
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1071808745
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evidence-Building and Evaluation in Government written by Kathryn Newcomer and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a road map for evaluators doing business within or for government, public managers who are expected to assess and use evidence generated by a large variety of evaluation approaches, and students taking evaluation courses in public management.