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UNINA9910974914203321 |
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Getting to positive outcomes for children in child care : a summary of two workshops / / Board on Children, Youth, and Families ; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council and Institutes of Medicine |
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Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c2001 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (67 p.) |
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Child care services - United States |
Child development - United States |
Child welfare - United States |
Performance - Measurement |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Front Matter; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Overview of the Workshops; 3 Lessons Learned from Other Policy Domains; 4 Current Efforts to Establish Measures and Indicators; References; APPENDIX A Workshop Agendas; APPENDIX B Workshop Participants |
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As a result of the heightened public and political attention and the movement toward standards and accountability, performance measurement has emerged as an important concern in the early childhood care and education field. At the request of the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, the Board on Children, Youth, and Families convened two workshops to learn from existing efforts to develop performance measures for early childhood care and education, to consider what would be involved in developing and implementing an effective performance measurement system for this field, and to delineate some critical next steps for moving such an effort forward. |
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UNINA9910954331803321 |
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Carsey Thomas M. <1966-> |
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Campaign dynamics : the race for governor / / Thomas M. Carsey |
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Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2000 |
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1-282-44453-0 |
9786612444531 |
0-472-02318-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (230 p.) |
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Governors - United States - Election |
Political campaigns - United States - States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index. |
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Campaign Dynamics: The Race for Governor explores the dynamic interaction between candidates and voters that takes place during campaigns. It finds that voters respond in a meaningful way to what candidates say and do during their campaigns. Candidates for state-wide and national offices spend millions of dollars and thousands of hours trying to convey their messages to voters. Do voters hear them and respond? More specifically, do the issues candidates stress on the campaign trail influence the choices voters make when casting their ballots? The evidence presented in this book suggests that the answer is a resounding yes. Campaign Dynamics examines more than one hundred gubernatorial elections from 1982 through 1994, beginning with case studies of the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey in 1993. Combining interviews and observations with empirical analysis of public opinion polls, the case studies develop the basic understanding of how campaigns define the set of important issues in an election. Then the analysis is expanded to consider the abortion issue in thirty-four gubernatorial elections in 1990. Later chapters test these ideas in over one hundred gubernatorial elections, combining exit poll data on upwards of 100,000 voters from dozens of races with measures of campaign themes developed out of a content analysis of |
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newspaper coverage. This book employs multiple methods and sources of data and represents one of the most comprehensive theoretical and empirical efforts to understand the role of campaigns in voting behavior ever undertaken. Campaign Dynamics will be of interest to those who study state politics, voting behavior and campaigns, and democratic theory. It should also guide students and scholars interested in performing empirical tests of formal models and those wishing to combine multiple methods in their research. Thomas M. Carsey is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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