Social Science and Policymaking [electronic resource] : A Search for Relevance in the Twentieth Century

Author/Creator:

Featherman, David Lee.

Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2009.

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (239 p.)

Local subjects:

Electronic books. -- local.
Policy sciences.
United States -- Social policy.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Contents:

""Contents ""; ""Preface""; ""1. In Search of Relevance to Social Reform and Policy-Making / David L. Featherman and Maris A. Vinovskis""; ""2. Knowledge for the Public Good: The Emergence of Social Sciences and Social Reform in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century America, 1880�1940 / Martin Bulmer""; ""3. Growth and Use of Social and Behavioral Science in the Federal Government since World War II / David L. Featherman and Maris A. Vinovskis""; ""4. Designing Head Start: Roles Played by Developmental Psychologists / Sheldon H. White and Deborah A. Phillips""
""5. Policy, Aging, and the Graying of Society / W. Andrew Achenbaum""""6. Welfare Reform Policy from Nixon to Clinton: What Role for Social Science? / Sheldon Danziger""; ""7. Welfare Reform at the State Level: The Role of Social Experiments and Demonstrations / Judith M. Gueron""; ""8. The Making and Analysis of Public Policy: A Perspective on the Role of Social Science / Laurence E. Lynn Jr.""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contributor:

Vinovskis, Maris Arvids.

ISBN:

1-282-44511-1
9786612445118
0-472-02331-4

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