Public Administration

Financial Strategy for Public Managers

By: Sharon Kioko and Justin Marlowe, University of Washington

Financial Strategy for Public Managers is a new generation textbook for financial management in the public sector. It offers a thorough, applied, and concise introduction to the essential financial concepts and analytical tools that today’s effective public servants need to know.

Includes: practice problems.

Attribution: Financial Strategy for Public Managers by Sharon Kioko and Justin Marlowe is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International License

Quantitative Research Methods for Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration (With Applications in R) – 3rd Edition

By: Hank Jenkins-Smith, and Joseph Ripberger, University of Oklahoma

The focus of this book is on using quantitative research methods to test hypotheses and build theory in political science, public policy and public administration. It is designed for advanced undergraduate courses, or introductory and intermediate graduate-level courses.

Includes: R Markdown files available in a public GitHub repository; it uses and teaches R and RStudio for data analysis, visualization and data management; and it uses publicly available survey data (from the Meso-Scale Integrated Socio-geographic Network). Students can download the data, replicate the examples, and explore further!

Attribution:  Quantitative Research Methods for Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration (With Applications in R) – 3rd Edition by Hank Jenkins-Smith and Joseph Ripberger is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International License.

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