This important Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the role, function and perceived impact of policy research-oriented institutions in North America, Europe and beyond. Over 20 international scholars explore the diverse and eclectic world of think tanks to reveal their structure, governance and unique position in occupying a critical space on the public-policy landscape.
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Edited by Donald E. Abelson and Christopher J. Rastrick
Edited by Eran Vigoda-Gadot and Dana R. Vashdi
This Handbook comprehensively explores research methods in public administration, management and policy. Exploring the richness of both traditional and contemporary methods and strategies for making progress in the field, it provides an advanced toolkit for understanding the science of public administration and management in the 21st century.
Monograph Chapter
In How Not to Write a Thesis or Dissertation
Mikael Sundström
- Published:
- 10 November 2020
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020
How Not to Write a Thesis or Dissertation
A Guide to Success through Failure
Mikael Sundström
If you thought a book about thesis writing would make for wearisome reading, think again! In seven entertaining and enlightening chapters, Mikael Sundström sheds light on the trials and tribulations of academic writing, offering guidance on how to become a doyen of academic disaster – and, more importantly, how to avoid that fate.
Mikael Sundström
In this introductory chapter, the aims and ambitions of the book are set out and explained.
Monograph Chapter
In How Not to Write a Thesis or Dissertation
Mikael Sundström
- Published:
- 10 November 2020
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020
Monograph Chapter
In How Not to Write a Thesis or Dissertation
Mikael Sundström
- Published:
- 10 November 2020
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020
Handbook of Theory and Methods in Applied Health Research
Questions, Methods and Choices
Edited by Catherine Walshe and Sarah Brearley
This Handbook expertly instructs the reader on how to conduct applied health research across a number of disciplines. Particularly aimed at postgraduate health researchers and students of applied health research, it presents and explains a wide range of research designs and other contemporary issues in applied health research.
Edited by B. Guy Peters and Guillaume Fontaine
Public policy research has become increasingly comparative over the past several decades, but the methodological issues involved in this research have not been discussed adequately. This Handbook provides a discussion of the fundamental methodological issues in comparative policy research, as well as descriptions and analyses of major techniques used for that research. The techniques discussed are both quantitative and qualitative, and all are embedded in the broader discussion of comparative research design.
Edited by Nicolina Montesano Montessori, Michael Farrelly and Jane Mulderrig
This book provides a series of contemporary and international policy case studies analysed through discursive methodological approaches in the traditions of critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and discourse theory. This is the first volume that connects this discursive methodology systematically to the field of critical policy analysis and will therefore be an essential book for researchers who wish to include a discursive analysis in their critical policy research.
Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly
Is it possible to effectively address complex problems when there are multiple and often conflicting interests, as well as multiple interacting causalities, within a constantly changing and complex environment? The analysis of such problems often results in an endless list of often contradictory factors and provides a picture with no linear causality and no overall coherent meaning, too random to help explain the complex interactions that led to the problem. Understanding not only the characteristics of organisations with their multiple interacting issues and causalities, but their co-evolutionary dynamics is the key here. This chapter provides detailed advice on how to use the complexity perspective in real life examples showing how the two parts of the EMK methodology were used in a challenging context. The first part was the identification of the multi-dimensional problem space and the co-evolutionary dynamics between the multiple dimensions, which provided a starting point for decision-making. The second part acknowledged that complex problems do not have single solutions, but need a broader enabling environment, capable of addressing the challenge over time as it changes and evolves.
Handbook Chapter
In Handbook of Research Methods in Complexity Science
Edited by Eve Mitleton-Kelly, Alexandros Paraskevas and Christopher Day
- Published:
- 26 January 2018
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2018