Communication Researchers and Policy-making: An MIT Press Sourcebook Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	The Long View	11
I	Policy as a Research Context	33
2	Policy as a Research Context	35
3	The Study of Public Administration	61
4	The Policy Orientation	85
5	National Information Policy	105
6	The Symbolic Uses of Effects: Notes on the Television Violence Inquiries and the Legitimation of Mass Communications Research	117
7	Pornography Research and Public Policy	145
8	Transforming Principles into Policy	167
9	Government Regulation of "Adult" Businesses through Zoning and Anti-Nudity Ordinances: Debunking the Legal Myth of Negative Secondary Effects	177
II	Relationships with Policy-makers	219
10	Facing Out: Researchers and Policy-makers	221
11	Obituary for an Agency	245
12	U.S. Mass Communication Research, Counterinsurgency, and Scientific "Reality"	253
13	From Radio Research to Communications Intelligence: Rockefeller Philanthropy, Communications Specialists, and the American Policy Community	295
14	A Novel Conference: The Origins of TPRC	347
15	Communication Research on Children and Public Policy	359
16	"Guys in Suits with Charts": Audience Research in U.S. Public Radio	375
17	Relationship between Public Opinion and Supreme Court Opinions: Was Mr. Dooley Right?	395
III	Relationships with Academia	413
18	Facing In: Researchers and Academia	415
19	The Ambiguity of Policy Research: Social Research on Broadcasting	437
20	Get Out of the Car: A Case Study on the Organization of Policy Research	445
21	Putting the First Amendment in Its Place: Enhancing Democracy through the Press	461
22	Social Science and Social Control	487
23	Remarks on Administrative and Critical Communications Research	493
24	Researchers at the Federal trade Commission: Peril and Promise	511
25	"Fraught with Such Great Possibilities": The Historical Relationship of Communication Research to Mass Media Regulation	529
IV	Conclusions	573
26	Enduring Tensions and Lessons Learned	575
	List of Contributors	593
	Index	599