Author: United States. Office of Federal Statistical Policy and Standards
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 257
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eric Rauchway
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-06-26
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780809030477
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nineteenth-century globalization made America exceptional. On the back of European money and immigration, America became an empire with considerable skill at conquest but little experience administering other people's, or its own, affairs, which it preferred to leave to the energies of private enterprise. The nation's resulting state institutions and traditions left America immune to the trends of national development and ever after unable to persuade other peoples to follow its example. In this concise, argumentative book, Eric Rauchway traces how, from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, the world allowed the United States to become unique and the consequent dangers we face to this very day.
Author: Jean M. Converse
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 599
ISBN-13: 1351487426
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hardly an American today escapes being polled or surveyed or sampled. In this illuminating history, Jean Converse shows how survey research came to be perhaps the single most important development in twentieth-century social science. Everyone interested in survey methods and public opinion, including social scientists in many fi elds, will find this volume a major resource.Converse traces the beginnings of survey research in the practical worlds of politics and business, where elite groups sought information so as to infl uence mass democratic publics and markets. During the Depression and World War II, the federal government played a major role in developing surveys on a national scale. In the 1940s certain key individuals with academic connections and experience in polling, business, or government research brought surveys into academic life. By the 1960s, what was initially viewed with suspicion had achieved a measure of scientific acceptance of survey research.The author draws upon a wealth of material in archives, interviews, and published work to trace the origins of the early organizations (the Bureau of Applied Social Research, the National Opinion Research Center, and the Survey Research Center of Michigan), and to capture the perspectives of front-line fi gures such as Paul Lazarsfeld, George Gallup, Elmo Roper, and Rensis Likert. She writes with sensitivity and style, revealing how academic survey research, along with its commercial and political cousins, came of age in the United States.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 426
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Office of Management and Budget. Statistical Policy Division
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 1250
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Author: William Alonso
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 1987-09-09
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 1610440021
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Politics of Numbers is the first major study of the social and political forces behind the nation's statistics. In more than a dozen essays, its editors and authors look at the controversies and choices embodied in key decisions about how we count—in measuring the state of the economy, for example, or enumerating ethnic groups. They also examine the implications of an expanding system of official data collection, of new computer technology, and of the shift of information resources into the private sector. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Census Series