Public Policy: Origins, Practice, and Analysis

An introduction to public administration covering the public sector, management and organizational behavior, budgeting, human resources and ethics. A solid first look at how government agencies actually work.

Jayme L. Renfro

Learn to test political and policy questions with data, from research design and probability to regression, with worked examples in R. A complete open textbook for political science and public administration students.

Hank Jenkins-Smith, Joseph Ripberger