The Politics of Numbers /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: National Committee for Research on the 1980 Census
Otros Autores: Starr, Paul, 1949- (Editor ), Alonso, William (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1987]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Recensement.
Statistics - General.
Social Sciences.
Statistical services > Political aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
United States.
États-Unis > Recensement, 1980 > Congres.
États-Unis > Services statistiques > Aspect politique > Congres.
United States > Census, 1980.
United States > Statistical services > Political aspects.
Census data.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction // William Alonso and Paul Starr; The Sociology of Official Statistics // Paul Starr; Part I. The Politics of Economic Measurement ; Chapter 1. The Politics of Comparative Economic Statistics: Three Cultures and Three Cases // Raymond Vernon ; Chapter 2. The Politics of Income Measurement // Raymond Vernon; Chapter 3. Political Purpose and the National Accounts // Christopher Jencks; Part II. The Politics of Population Measurement ; Chapter 4. The 1980 Census in Historical Perspective // Margo A. Conk.
  • Chapter 5. Politics and the Measurement of Ethnicity // William PetersenChapter 6. The Social and Political Context of Population Forecasting // Nathan Keyfitz; Part III. Statistics and Democratic Politics ; Chapter 7. Public Statistics and Democractic Politics // Kenneth Prewitt; Chapter 8. The Political Foundations of American Statistical Policy // Steven Kelman; Chapter 9. Statistics and the Politics of Minority Representation: The Evolution of the Voting Rights Act Since 1965 // Abigail Thernstrom; Part IV. Statistics and American Federalism.
  • Chapter 10. The Politics of Printouts: The Use of Official Numbers to Allocate Federal Grants-in-Aid // Richard P. NathanChapter 11. Federal Statistics in Local Governments // Judith de Neufville; Chapter 12. The Managed Irrelevance of Federal Education Statistics // Janet A. Weiss and Judith E. Gruber; Part V. The New Political Economy of Statistics ; Chapter 13. Technology, Costs, and the New Economics of Statistics // Joseph W. Duncan; Chapter 14. Who Will Have the Numbers? The Rise of the Statistical Services Industry and the Politics of Public Data // Paul Starr and Ross Corson.

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