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Pursuing truth, exercising power : social science and public policy in the twenty-first century / Lisa Anderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Lisa, 1950-
- Series:
- University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures.
- Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Policy sciences.
- Social sciences.
- Social sciences--United States--History.
- Privatization.
- Common good.
- Physical Description:
- xi ,158 p.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Science of Politics
- 3 A Marketplace of Ideas
- 4 Wars and Webs
- 5 Concluding Thoughts
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-143) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-50099-8
- OCLC:
- 61108830
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