Social science in government : the role of policy researchers /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany, N.Y. :
Rockefeller Institute Press,
2000.
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| Edition: | Updated edition. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Michael J. Malbin
- Applying Social Science to Government
- The Role of Applied Social Science
- Optimism and Disillusionment
- Applying Macroeconomics
- The Planning-Programming-Budgeting System
- Demonstration and Evaluation Research
- Doubts Arise
- Demise of the PPB System
- Assessing Demonstration and Evaluation Research
- Demonstration Research
- The Nature of Demonstration Research
- The Vocabulary of Demonstration Research
- The Negative Income Tax Demonstrations
- Other Income Maintenance Demonstrations
- Demonstrations of Service-Type Programs
- Hurdles of Demonstration Research
- Selection Bias
- The Null Hypothesis
- Contamination
- Relations with Program Operators
- Quality and Consistency of Treatment
- Cost and Quality of Data
- Treatment of Human Subjects
- The Uncertainty of Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Welfare Demonstration Studies
- Supported Work
- Results Focus on Welfare
- Implications for Welfare Reform
- MDRC's Work/Welfare Demonstrations
- Evaluation Research
- The Nature of Evaluation Research
- The Federalism Barrier Reef
- Scientific Implications
- Evaluating the California GAIN Program
- The GAIN Process
- The MDRC Evaluation
- The Research Challenge
- Discoveries in the Implementation Process
- The 1988 and 1996 National Welfare Reform Laws
- The Family Support Act of 1988
- The Personal Responsibility Act of 1996
- Evaluating the Family Support Act of 1988 / Irene Lurie
- Three Strategies
- Little Fanfare or Rhetoric.
