Shane Nordyke – författare

Planning and Evaluation for Public Safety Leaders presents field-tested techniques and tips to help public safety leaders effectively manage their organizations and overcome challenges.

Organizations and agencies operating within the public safety sector are unique in many respects. These unique elements provide a different context in which planning, and performance measurement occur. Without recognizing this particular context, most public planning texts ignore crucial pieces of the puzzle when it comes to effectively achieving and measuring public safety outcomes. This book’s practical approach equips students with approachable explanations specific to the public safety context, and practical tools for public safety leaders that can apply to their organizations.

Key Features

• Each chapter begins with a real-world case from the public safety sector that highlights the importance or possible application of the information covered.

• Cases are written in close coordination with the public safety practitioners to illustrate how the concepts covered in the chapter work in a real-world public safety context.

• "Put it into Practice" Reflections at the end of each chapter allow new or future public safety leaders to apply the material directly to their current organization.

• Boxes describe how to use and apply specific methods in a concise and easy to find tools addressing planning and evaluation challenges as they arise

• Key terms and application questions written specifically for students, focus in on the most important concepts and terms from the text.

• Overviews of relevant theoretical and scholarly work on the concepts offer connections with course material.

Planning and Evaluation for Public Safety Leaders presents field-tested techniques and tips to help public safety leaders effectively manage their organizations and overcome challenges.

Organizations and agencies operating within the public safety sector are unique in many respects. These unique elements provide a different context in which planning, and performance measurement occur. Without recognizing this particular context, most public planning texts ignore crucial pieces of the puzzle when it comes to effectively achieving and measuring public safety outcomes. This book’s practical approach equips students with approachable explanations specific to the public safety context, and practical tools for public safety leaders that can apply to their organizations.

Key Features

• Each chapter begins with a real-world case from the public safety sector that highlights the importance or possible application of the information covered.

• Cases are written in close coordination with the public safety practitioners to illustrate how the concepts covered in the chapter work in a real-world public safety context.

• "Put it into Practice" Reflections at the end of each chapter allow new or future public safety leaders to apply the material directly to their current organization.

• Boxes describe how to use and apply specific methods in a concise and easy to find tools addressing planning and evaluation challenges as they arise

• Key terms and application questions written specifically for students, focus in on the most important concepts and terms from the text.

• Overviews of relevant theoretical and scholarly work on the concepts offer connections with course material.

Each chapter draws on practised teaching methods covering the what, how and when for teaching political methodology with an in-depth look at systematic research methods. The book is split into four distinct sections for graduate research methods education: the approach, the foundations of research design, quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis. Chapters offer evidence-based advice grounded in the science of teaching and learning (SoTL) literature from experienced, award-winning and highly recognized instructors of political methodology.

Teaching Graduate Political Methodology will be required reading for faculty wanting to establish excellent methods for challenging subjects within the fields of political science, public administration and public policies. It will also serve as a useful resource for instructors wishing to gain greater student engagement with their courses by utilising different methods.