1st Edition

Social Science and Government Policies and problems

Edited By A. B. Cherns, W. I. Jenkins, R. Sinclair Copyright 1972
    306 Pages
    by Routledge

    306 Pages
    by Routledge

    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
    This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
    Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1972 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

    1: Social Science as a Policy Area; 1: The functions and roles of the social sciences; 2: Social sciences and policy; 3: Policy-making as a learning process; 4: Research and public policy; 2: Aspects of Social Science Policy; 5: The need for and provision of social science manpower 1; 6: Types of output mix of research organizations and their complementarity; 7: For a school of application of social sciences; 8: The state of the social sciences; 3: Social Scientists and the Making of Social Science Policy; 9: The federal government and social science policy in the United States; 10: The uses of social science in Poland; 11: National and international policies for social research; 12: Social science meta-policy

    Biography

    R. Sinclair, A. B. Cherns, W. I. Jenkins