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Ethics, The Social Sciences, and Policy Analysis

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  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. Daniel Callahan

    1. Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, The Hastings Center, Hastings-on-Hudson, USA

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  2. Bruce Jennings

    1. Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, The Hastings Center, Hastings-on-Hudson, USA

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Part of the book series: The Hastings Center Series in Ethics (HCSE)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Policy Analysis in a New Key

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Interpretive Social Science and Policy Analysis

      • Bruce Jennings
      Pages 3-35

    3. Social Science as Practical Reason

      • Robert N. Bellah
      Pages 37-64

    4. Comment on Robert N. Bellah, “Social Science as Practical Reason”

      • James M. Banner Jr.
      Pages 65-68

    5. Imperfect Democracy and the Moral Responsibilities of Policy Advisers

      • Michael S. McPherson
      Pages 69-81

    6. Value-Critical Policy Analysis

      • Martin Rein
      Pages 83-111

    7. Emancipatory Social Science and Social Critique

      • Kai Nielsen
      Pages 113-157

  3. Social Science and Political Advocacy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. The British Tradition of Social Administration

      • Martin Bulmer
      Pages 161-185

    3. Social Research and Political Advocacy

      • Jeanne Guillemin, Irving Louis Horowitz
      Pages 187-211

    4. Ideology, Interests, and Information

      • Carol H. Weiss
      Pages 213-245

  4. Disciplinary Standards and Policy Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247
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    2. Use of Social Science Data for Policy Analysis and Policymaking

      • Ruth S. Hanft
      Pages 249-270

    3. Social Science and Policy Analysis

      • Mark H. Moore
      Pages 271-291

    4. Subverting Policy Premises

      • Kenneth Prewitt
      Pages 293-304

    5. Partial Knowledge

      • Thomas H. Murray
      Pages 305-331

  5. Toward Ethical Guidelines

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 333-333
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    2. Toward Ethical Guidelines for Social Science Research in Public Policy

      • Donald P. Warwick, Thomas F. Pettigrew
      Pages 335-368

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 369-381
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About this book

The social sciences playa variety of multifaceted roles in the policymaking process. So varied are these roles, indeed, that it is futile to talk in the singular about the use of social science in policymaking, as if there were one constant relationship between two fixed and stable entities. Instead, to address this issue sensibly one must talk in the plural about uses of dif­ ferent modes of social scientific inquiry for different kinds of policies under various circumstances. In some cases, the influence of social scientific research is direct and tangible, and the connection between the find­ ings and the policy is easy to see. In other cases, perhaps most, its influence is indirect-one small piece in a larger mosaic of politics, bargaining, and compromise. Occasionally the findings of social scientific studies are explicitly drawn upon by policymakers in the formation, implementation, or evaluation of particular policies. More often, the categories and theoretical models of social science provide a general background orientation within which policymakers concep­ tualize problems and frame policy options. At times, the in­ fluence of social scientific work is cognitive and informational in nature; in other instances, policymakers use social science primarily for symbolic and political purposes in order to le­ gitimate preestablished goals and strategies. Nonetheless, amid this diversity and variety, troubling general questions persistently arise.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, The Hastings Center, Hastings-on-Hudson, USA

    Daniel Callahan, Bruce Jennings

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ethics, The Social Sciences, and Policy Analysis

  • Editors: Daniel Callahan, Bruce Jennings

  • Series Title: The Hastings Center Series in Ethics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7015-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Hastings Center 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-7017-8Published: 12 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-7015-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 381

  • Topics: Ethics, Social Sciences, general

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