Social Indicator Models
Social Indicator Models

Author: Kenneth C. Land

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Published: 1975-02-14

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1610446593

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Deals in comprehensive fashion with a diverse array of objective and subjective social indicators and shows how these indicators can be used, potentially, to inform and perhaps guide social policy. Written with clarity and authority, it will be of paramount interest to those concerned with the interpretation and analysis of social indicators and to those interested in their use. For the former, it serves as an illuminating introduction to some of the analytical tasks that lie ahead in the study of social indicators. For the latter, it provides a solid foundation upon which future policy analysis may be based.

Indicators of Social Change
Indicators of Social Change

Author: Eleanor Bernert Sheldon

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Published: 1968-12-31

Total Pages: 833

ISBN-13: 1610446917

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Includes many original contributions by an assembly of distinguished social scientists. They set forth the main features of a changing American society: how its organization for accomplishing major social change has evolved, and how its benefits and deficits are distributed among the various parts of the population. Theoretical developments in the social sciences and the vast impact of current events have contributed to a resurgence of interest in social change; in its causes, measurement, and possible prediction. These essays analyze what we know, and examine what we need to know in the study, prediction, and possible control of social change.

Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector
Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector

Author: Patrice Flynn

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780306465482

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One of the major tasks facing researchers, practitioners, and funders is the development of empirical tools to measure the inherent worth of nonprofit organizations as well as the sector as a whole. Renowned scholars present chapters on the state of the art of performance measurement in the nonprofit sector and seek to establish a framework for a long-term research agenda to identify, quantify, and self-assess those qualities that make the nonprofit sector unique.

Modelling the City
Modelling the City

Author: C S Bertuglia

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-08-21

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1134857543

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Modelling the City examines the changing role of urban models in respect to both the need to readdress measures of urban well-being and the perceived need to bring model outputs more in tune with key planning problems. The authors argue that whilst there has been substantial progress with a wide range of theoretical problems in urban modelling, modellers have not paid enough attention to the usefulness of their model outputs in terms of indicators which offer new insights into the workings of the city or region. Modelling the City offers a `new geography of performance indicators' for the public and private sector based on the principles of spatial interaction.

Rational Techniques in Policy Analysis
Rational Techniques in Policy Analysis

Author: Michael Carley

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1483163946

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Rational Techniques in Policy Analysis covers the role of rational techniques in policy making process. This book is organized into two parts encompassing 12 chapters that consider the relationship of policy making and other approaches to rational analysis. Part I deals with the "disintegration" of rational policy analysis to find out what the pieces are, how they work, how the parts interact and how they relate to the wider policy making environment. Part II considers the types of rational analysis in more detail, and serves not only as a survey of rational techniques but as an introduction to the important literature in each field. This part specifically looks into the cost-utility techniques, social forecasting, and evaluation and social indicator research. This book is intended primarily for analysts, researchers, and students of the policy making process in university and government.