Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts

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With clear and straightforward instruction, a companion workbook, and an unbeatable price, Essential Statistics affords maximum flexibility for students and instructors. Brief chapters hone in on core concepts and tools, allowing students to start working with data on the computer from the very start. Learning objectives and key term lists frame chapters while a wealth of graphics―tables, figures, and boxes―visually help explain statistical techniques and enhance skill acquisition.

In answering to helpful feedback from adopters, this second edition touts important improvements:

• A simplified organization―moving from 8 to 16 chapters―separates out statistical techniques making it easier for instructors to assign text materials throughout a semester and for students to master one skill at a time.
• Added examples and detail―from scenarios public managers and policy analysts are likely to encounter on the job―offer application of each technique in practice.
• Further explanation of research methods, now more than four chapters, offers students a great refresher or lays needed groundwork.
• New "getting started" boxes prompt students to ask themselves questions along the way that promote application and reinforce basic skills.
• Expanded coverage of crosstabs, logistic regression, and time series analysis, as well as reference to important new scholarship and enhanced discussion of research ethics and data sources.

Evan M. Berman is Professor of Public Management at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, EAESP (São Paulo, Brazil), specializing in human resource management, public performance, and comparative public administration. Previously, he was Huey McElveen Distinguished Professor at Louisiana State University. Dr. Berman is ranked among the very top scholars in public administration world-wide. He has received the Outstanding Scholarship Award from the American Society for Public Administration (Section on Personnel and Labor Relations) for contributions to  research, teaching and service in public sector HRM, and many other awards, including from the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA), the accrediting body for public administration programs. He has authored 15 books and over 175 publications, in all of the leading journals of the discipline. Dr Berman has chaired ASPA’s Section on Personnel and Labor Relations, he is founding editor of ASPA’s Book Series in Public Administration and Public Policy, senior editor of Public Performance and Management Review, and a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar. His 2023 book, Performance and Innovation in the Public Sector (with I. Hijal-Moghrabi), won the 2024 ASPA/SPALR Outstanding Book Award. Evan is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and Visiting Professor at Fudan University (Shanghai) and University of Indonesia (Jakarta).