Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power : Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century.
Title:
Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power : Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century.
Author:
Anderson, Lisa.
ISBN:
9780231500999
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (172 pages)
Series:
Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Science of Politics -- 3 A Marketplace of Ideas -- 4 Wars and Webs -- 5 Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
The conditions that shaped the rise and expansion of American social science are rapidly changing, and with them, the terms of its relationship with power and policy. As globalization has diminished the role of the state as the locus of public policy i.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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