Analytics, Policy, and Governance
1st Edition
Published on 10. January 2017
256 pages
978-0-300-22517-4 (ISBN)
Description
The first available textbook on the rapidly growing and increasingly important field of government analytics This first textbook on the increasingly important field of government analytics provides invaluable knowledge and training for students of government in the synthesis, interpretation, and communication of "e,big data,"e, which is now an integral part of governance and policy making. Integrating all the major components of this rapidly growing field, this invaluable text explores the intricate relationship of data analytics to governance while providing innovative strategies for the retrieval and management of information.
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Jennifer Bachner | Benjamin Ginsberg | Kathryn Wagner Hill
Analytics, Policy, and Governance
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02/2017
Yale University Press
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Jennifer Bachner is director of the Master of Science in Government Analytics at Johns Hopkins. Benjamin Ginsberg is David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and chair of Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins. Kathryn Wagner Hill is director of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins.
Content
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I: ENGAGING THE DATA
- 1 Measuring Political and Policy Preferences Using Item Response Scaling
- 2 Causal Inference with Observational Data
- 3 Causal Inference with Experimental Data
- PART II: EMERGING DATA SOURCES AND TECHNIQUES
- 4 Descriptive Network Analysis: Interest Group Lobbying Dynamics Around Immigration Policy
- 5 Learning from Place in the Era of Geolocation
- 6 Text Analysis: Estimating Policy Preferences from Written and Spoken Words
- 7 Machine Learning and Governance
- PART III: IMPLICATIONS FOR GOVERNANCE
- 8 Governing a Data-Driven Society
- 9 Big Data and Privacy
- 10 Reflections on Analytics: Knowledge and Power
- List of Contributors
- Index
- A
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