G David Garson
Biographic Data
| ID | 251177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G David Garson |
| GIVEN NAMES | G David |
| FAMILY NAME | Garson |
| SIGNATURE | GARSON G D |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 101 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 101 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Hierarchical Linear Modeling: Guide and Applications
This book provides a brief, easy-to-read to implementing hierarchical linear modeling using three leading software platforms, followed by a set of original how-to articles following a standardard instructional format. The guide portion consists of five chapters by the editor, providing an overview of HLM, discussion of methodological assumptions, and parallel worked model examples in SPSS, SAS, and HLM software. The applications portion consists …
Dimensionality Analysis as a Computerized Tool for Strategic Planning in Policing and Security
Multidimensional scaling is a useful addition to the toolkit of the crime or security analysts, made possible by the advent of desktop computing power. Three uses of this graphical statistical tool are as follows: (a) forming policy initiatives and making resource allocations; (b) analyzing terrorism threats and dynamics; and (c) performing structural analysis of performance data. Dimensionality analysis is compared with more commonly encountered…
Computerized Simulation in the Social Sciences: A Survey and Evaluation
After years at the periphery of the social sciences, simulation is now emerging as an important and widely used tool for understanding social phenomena. Through simulation, researchers can identify causal effects, specify critical parameter estimates, and clarify the state of the art with respect to what is understood about how processes evolve over time. Moreover, simulation methods are often the most time-effective and cost-effective means of d…
Securing the Virtual State: Recent Developments in Privacy and Security
Recent developments in U.S. privacy and security policy are traced, including coverage of the renewal of the PATRIOT Act, the domestic spying affair of 2005 to 2006, passage of the Real ID Act, and other developments associated with the Department of Homeland Security. Threats to democratic values are assessed
Patriotic Information Systems: Evaluating Bush Administration Information Policy
Symposium on the Theory of Technology Enactment in Jane Fountain's (2001)Building the Virtual State: An Introduction
Technological Teleology and the Theory of Technology Enactment: The Case of the International Trade Data System
Jane Fountain's book, Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change, uses the International Trade Data System (ITDS) as its leading case in support of technology enactment theory and in refutation of technological determinist theory. An examination of the ITDS case in the years since the termination of Fountain's coverage in 1999 shows the case to be of a different nature than presented in the book. The weaknesses of…
Doing Web-Based Content Profile Analysis: A Tutorial Review of TextGrab and TextQuest
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Crime Mapping and Its Extension to Social Science Analysis
The purpose of this article is to present the definitions of 21 geographic information system (GIS) functions used in crime mapping and to propose how these functions may be applied more generally to social science research. Most social data are spatial, but this fact has been largely ignored in sociological and social science research. More extensive use of both spatial statistics and spatial analysis in sociology seems likely, and hopefully thi…
Resources for Computerized Crime Mapping
This report inventories geographic information systems resources for crime mapping, with a view to publicizing new research tools applicable to topics in sociology, public administration, criminology, and other social sciences
Software Review: Latent Gold
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From Policy Science to Policy Analysis: A Quarter Century of Progress
This essay on the intellectual history of policy analysis traces the field from Merriam's concept of “intelligent planning” and Lass‐well's vision of “policy sciences” to the present. Lasswell's vision is seen as a relevant if unrealized one in general dimensions. It is argued that the tie of policy analysis to traditional issues in political science is unbreakable and, because of this, attempts to develop an interdisciplinary policy science prem…
A Comparison of Neural Network and Expert Systems Algorithms with Common Multivariate Procedures for Analysis of Social Science Data
New computer techniques for data analysis, notably the algorithms associated with neural networks and with expert systems, have not caught on to a significant extent in social science. To appraise these developments, an empirical assessment is conducted in which expert systems and neural network approaches are compared with multiple linear regression, logistic regression, effects analysis, path analysis, and discriminant analysis. A simple method…
The Political Economy of On-line Education
This article assesses the argument that on-line education will revolutionize institutions of higher learning by early in the next century. Pros and cons of on-line education are examined. The budgetary implications of on-line education are discussed with reference to six existing models of on-line education. Differences between corporate training and university education are highlighted with regard to on-line education. The conclusion calls atten…
On the Origins of Interest-Group Theory: A Critique of a Process
Starting with nineteenth-century jurisprudence, this essay traces the changing perceptions of the nature and role of groups in politics as affected in turn by scientific reformism, classic pluralism, and descriptive science orientations to the study of politics. The work of Laski and Bentley is highlighted.The essay contends that political science has not grown by scientific study laid upon scientific study, but rather by a process of gradual enc…
Computerized Simulation in the Social Sciences: A Survey and Evaluation
After years at the periphery of the social sciences, simulation is now emerging as an important and widely used tool for understanding social phenomena. Through simulation, researchers can identify causal effects, specify critical parameter estimates, and clarify the state of the art with respect to what is understood about how processes evolve over time. Moreover, simulation methods are often the most time-effective and cost-effective means of d…
Automoble Workers and the Radical Dream
The Disruption of Prison Administration: An Investigation of Alternative Theories of the Relationship Among Administrators, Reformers, and Involuntary Social Service Clients
Interest in contemporary disruptions of human services administrations by involuntary clients, from welfare recipients to draft inductees, warrants an empirical investigation of prison rioting for two reasons. First, interest derives from a crisis of normal services involving such key foci of recent administative research as informal organizational behavior, the nature of professionalization of roles, and the ambiguities of clientelism. Second, t…
Technological Teleology and the Theory of Technology Enactment: The Case of the International Trade Data System
Jane Fountain's book, Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change, uses the International Trade Data System (ITDS) as its leading case in support of technology enactment theory and in refutation of technological determinist theory. An examination of the ITDS case in the years since the termination of Fountain's coverage in 1999 shows the case to be of a different nature than presented in the book. The weaknesses of…
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Computer-Assisted Survey Research and Continuous Audience Response Technology for the Political and Social Sciences
Survey research is chosen as this year's theme in the review of the state of the art of computing in political science because of its importance to this discipline. However, coverage applies to other social science disciplines as well. This essay reviews use of computers in computer-assisted survey research (CASR), computer-assisted interviewing, computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI), computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), touc…
Radical Issues in the History of the American Working Class
Symposium on the Theory of Technology Enactment in Jane Fountain's (2001)Building the Virtual State: An Introduction
Doing Web-Based Content Profile Analysis: A Tutorial Review of TextGrab and TextQuest
Crime Mapping and Its Extension to Social Science Analysis
The purpose of this article is to present the definitions of 21 geographic information system (GIS) functions used in crime mapping and to propose how these functions may be applied more generally to social science research. Most social data are spatial, but this fact has been largely ignored in sociological and social science research. More extensive use of both spatial statistics and spatial analysis in sociology seems likely, and hopefully thi…
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Evaluating Implementation of Web-Based Teaching in Political Science
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Social Science Computer Simulation: Its History, Design, and Future
Though far from comprehensive, what may be the most extensive inventory of social science computer simulations of the last decade is presented in historical perspective. Simulations are discussed in terms of four underlying structural models: equation systems, probability, resource allocation, and social process designs. Advantages and limitations of each design are discussed. Five developments affecting the future of social science computer simu…
Expert Systems: An Overview for Social Scientists
This survey article examines the nature of expert systems, describes conventional approaches to expert systems construction, discusses contexts in which expert systems are and are not appropriate, provides private and public sector examples of expert systems, and inventories various types of expert systems development tools. In addition, separate sections examine the special topics of inductive expert systems and of neural networks. It is conclud…
Collective violence re‐examined: Alternative theories of American labor violence
Handbook of Political Science Methods
The Disruption of Prison Administration: An Investigation of Alternative Theories of the Relationship Among Administrators, Reformers, and Involuntary Social Service Clients
Interest in contemporary disruptions of human services administrations by involuntary clients, from welfare recipients to draft inductees, warrants an empirical investigation of prison rioting for two reasons. First, interest derives from a crisis of normal services involving such key foci of recent administative research as informal organizational behavior, the nature of professionalization of roles, and the ambiguities of clientelism. Second, t…
Radical Issues in the History of the American Working Class
Cities Under Seige: An Anatomy of the Ghetto Riots, 1964-1968
Books reviewed
Going to America. By Terry Coleman. New York: Pantheon Books. 1972. 317 pp. $8.75. For Peace and Justice: Pacifism in America, 1914–1941. By Charles Chatfield. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 1971. 447 pp. $11.95. Teamster Rebellion. By Farrell Dobbs. New York: Monad Press. 1972. (Distributed by Pathfinder Press, Inc.) 192 pp. $6.95 cloth. $2.25 paper. Right to Challenge. People and Power in the Steelworkers Union. By John Herling. New …
Automoble Workers and the Radical Dream
On the Origins of Interest-Group Theory: A Critique of a Process
Starting with nineteenth-century jurisprudence, this essay traces the changing perceptions of the nature and role of groups in politics as affected in turn by scientific reformism, classic pluralism, and descriptive science orientations to the study of politics. The work of Laski and Bentley is highlighted.The essay contends that political science has not grown by scientific study laid upon scientific study, but rather by a process of gradual enc…
On Public Policy for Self-Management: Toward a Bill of Rights for Working People
Worker Self-Management in Industry: The West European Experience
Worker Self-Management in Industry: The West European Experience
From Policy Science to Policy Analysis: A Quarter Century of Progress
This essay on the intellectual history of policy analysis traces the field from Merriam's concept of “intelligent planning” and Lass‐well's vision of “policy sciences” to the present. Lasswell's vision is seen as a relevant if unrealized one in general dimensions. It is argued that the tie of policy analysis to traditional issues in political science is unbreakable and, because of this, attempts to develop an interdisciplinary policy science prem…
The Grim Science: The Struggle for Power. Walter H. Slack
Microcomputer Software for Political Scientists
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Microcomputer Applications in Public Administration
While news of the alleged microcomputer revolution fills the covers of Time and Newsweek, most public administrators have seen very little of it in the office. At best, typing has given way to word processing. But the image of the executive engrossed in a microcomputer on his or her desk is far from reality. Several factors have inhibited the growth of microcomputing in the public sector. The rise of microcomputing has come in an era of unprecede…
Organization Behavior and Public Management
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Software Reviews: The Quiet Revolution in Basic: A Review Essay
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