Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 474 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781610440028
Series Statement:
The Population of the United States in the 1980s
Content:
Contents -- 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
Content:
Chapter 5. Politics and the Measurement of Ethnicity // William Petersen -- Chapter 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
Content:
Chapter 10. The Politics of Printouts: The Use of Official Numbers to Allocate Federal Grants-in-Aid // Richard P. Nathan -- Chapter 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
Content:
Name Index -- Subject Index
Note:
"For the National Committee for Research on the 1980 Census
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Additional Edition:
1610440021
Additional Edition:
0871540150
Additional Edition:
9781610440028
Additional Edition:
9780871540157
Additional Edition:
Print version Politics of numbers
Language:
English
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