Social Science Methods and Government Effectiveness

Dick Nathan’s talk held on July 16 may have been right up your alley. Dick has allowed us to send to NCAPSA (National Capital Area American Political Science Association) members a lecture he recently gave for the National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics titled, “Social Science Methods and Government Effectiveness.” In the talk, Nathan believes researchers should assign a higher priority to institutional studies (e.g. process analysis), which can make a difference in finding out how public programs really operate. On behalf of NCAPSA, APSA will be sending it very soon.

David B.

http://www.rockinst.org/nawrs/papers/2009-07-Social_Science_Methods.pdf