Social sciences and modern states : national experiences and theoretical crossroads /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge Univesity Press, 1991. |
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| Description: | xv, 374 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Advances in political science |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1164763 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Part I. National Experiences in Comparative Perspective
- 1. The policy orientation: legacy and promise
- 2. Social science and the modern state: policy knowledge and political institutions in Western Europe and the United States
- 3. Political events and the policy sciences
- 4. From policy analysis to political management: An outside look at public-policy training in the United States
- 5. Networks of influence: the social sciences in the United Kingdom since the war
- 6. National contexts for the development of social-policy research: British and American research on poverty and social welfare compared
- 7. Political culture and the policy orientation in Dutch social science Stuart
- 8. Arenas of interaction: social science and public policy in Switzerland
- 9. The influence of social sciences on political decisions in Poland
- 10. The impact of social sciences on the process of development in Japan
- 11. Changing roles of new knowledge: research institutions and societal transformations in
- Part II. Policy Sciences at the Crossroads
- 12. Frame-reflective policy discourse
- 13. Research programmes and action programmes, or can policy research learn from the philosophy of science?
- 14. Policy research: data, ideas, or arguments?
- 15. Social knowledge and public policy: eight models of interaction
- Part III. Epilogue
- 16. Summing up: social sciences and modern states
- Index