Social Scientists, Policy, and the State

Name: Social Scientists, Policy, and the State
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ISBN: 9780275934491

ISBN-10: 0275934497

ISBN-13: 9780275934491

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Authors: Stephen Brooks, Alain G. Gagnon

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This collection of original essays focuses on the relationship of social scientists to the state and public policy in the industrialized democracies. The comparative approach of this book provides the basis for broader generalization about the linkages between social science and social scientist and the modern state and political power. Social Scientists, Policy, and the State brings fresh analysis to specific issues that are important to a more general understanding of these linkages. Part I examines the ways in which social scientists participate in the policy-making process. Part II looks at the uses made of ideas generated by social scientific research and at variations within and…

Book details

Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 3/9/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 193
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Stephen Brooks is Professor of Political Science at the University of Windsor and teaches political science at the University of Michigan. He has written several books on American politics including As Others See Us: The Causes and Consequences of Foreign Perceptions of America (2006) and American Exceptionalism in the Age of Obama (2013).



Preface


Introduction


The Influence of Social Scientists on Public Policy


Social Scientists and Policy


The Third Community, Policy Inquiry, and Social Scientists


Policy Paradigms, Experts and the State: The Case of Macroeconomic Policy-Making in Britain


The Market for Social Scientific Knowledge: The Case of Free Trade in Canada Knowledge, Power, and the State


The Uneasy Partnership Endures: Social Science and Government


Social Science and State Developments: The Structuration of Discourse in the Social Sciences


Knowledge, Power, and Policy: Reflections on Foucault


Background Reading: The Crisis of Policy Sciences


Bibliography


Index