Introduction // William Alonso and Paul Starr; The Sociology of Official Statistics // Paul Starr; Part I. The Politics of Economic Measurement ; Chapter 1. The Politics of Comparative Economic Statistics: Three Cultures and Three Cases // Raymond Vernon ; Chapter 2. The Politics of Income Measurement // Raymond Vernon; Chapter 3. Political Purpose and the National Accounts // Christopher Jencks; Part II. The Politics of Population Measurement ; Chapter 4. The 1980 Census in Historical Perspective // Margo A. Conk
Chapter 5. Politics and the Measurement of Ethnicity // William PetersenChapter 6. The Social and Political Context of Population Forecasting // Nathan Keyfitz; Part III. Statistics and Democratic Politics ; Chapter 7. Public Statistics and Democractic Politics // Kenneth Prewitt; Chapter 8. The Political Foundations of American Statistical Policy // Steven Kelman; Chapter 9. Statistics and the Politics of Minority Representation: The Evolution of the Voting Rights Act Since 1965 // Abigail Thernstrom; Part IV. Statistics and American Federalism
Chapter 10. The Politics of Printouts: The Use of Official Numbers to Allocate Federal Grants-in-Aid // Richard P. NathanChapter 11. Federal Statistics in Local Governments // Judith de Neufville; Chapter 12. The Managed Irrelevance of Federal Education Statistics // Janet A. Weiss and Judith E. Gruber; Part V. The New Political Economy of Statistics ; Chapter 13. Technology, Costs, and the New Economics of Statistics // Joseph W. Duncan; Chapter 14. Who Will Have the Numbers? The Rise of the Statistical Services Industry and the Politics of Public Data // Paul Starr and Ross Corson
Notes
"For the National Committee for Research on the 1980 Census."
