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viii, 254 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The social sciences, the federal government, and the age of postmodernism / Hamilton Cravens -- pt. I. The social sciences come to Washington. American social science and the invention of affirmative action, 1920s-1970s / Hamilton Cravens ; Statecraft and its retainers : American economics and public purpose after depression and war / Michael A. Bernstein -- pt. II. The social sciences as process and procedure. The science and politics of defense analysis / Harvey L. Sapolsky ; A risk perceived is a risk indeed : assessing risk in biomedical research and health policy / Philip L. Frana ; Progress and its discontents : postwar science and technology policy / Howard P. Segal -- pt. III. Have the social sciences mattered in Washington? Environment, government, and academe : the road to NEPA, EPA, and Earth Day / Hal Rothman ; Social science research and early childhood education : a historical analysis of developments in Head Start, kindergartens, and day care / Kirsten D. Nawrotski, Anna Mills Smith, Maris Vinovskis ; The death of the city : cultural individualism, hyperdiversity, and the devolution of national urban policy / Zane L. Miller ; The end of liberalism : narrating welfare's decline, from the Moynihan Report (1965) to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (1996) / William Graebner. |
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Political planning -- United States.
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Policy scientists -- United States.
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Social scientists in government -- United States.
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| Alt Author |
Cravens, Hamilton.
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| ISBN |
0813533406 |
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0813533414 (pbk.) |
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