Social Sciences and Modern States: National Experiences and Theoretical Crossroads Book

Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors;

Part I. National Experiences in Comparative Perspective:

1. The policy orientation: legacy and promise Peter Wagner, Carol Hirschon Weiss, Björn Wittrock and Hellmut Wollmann;
2. Social science and the modern state: policy knowledge and political institutions in Western Europe and the United States Björn Wittrock, Peter Wagner and Hellmut Wollmann;
3. Political events and the policy sciences Peter Deleon;
4. From policy analysis to political management: An outside look at public-policy training in the United States Werner Jann;
5. Networks of influence: the social sciences in the United Kingdom since the war Cyril S. Smith;
6. National contexts for the development of social-policy research: British and American research on poverty and social welfare compared Martin Bulmer;
7. Political culture and the policy orientation in Dutch social science Stuart S. Blume, Rob P. Hagendijk and AD A. M. Prins;
8. Arenas of interaction: social science and public policy in Switzerland Raimund E. Germann;
9. The influence of social sciences on political decisions in Poland Wladyslaw Markiewicz and Witold Morawski;
10. The impact of social sciences on the process of development in Japan Joji Watanuki;
11. Changing roles of new knowledge: research institutions and societal transformations in Brazil Simon Schwartzman;

Part II. Policy Sciences at the Crossroads:
12. Frame-reflective policy discourse Martin Rein and Donald Schon;
13. Research programmes and action programmes, or can policy research learn from the philosophy of science? Giandomenico Majone;
14.Policy research: data, ideas, or arguments? Carol Hirschon Weiss;
15. Social knowledge and public policy: eight models of interaction Björn Wittrock;

Part III. Epilogue:
16. Summing up: social sciences and modern states Carol Hirschon Weiss and Björn Wittrock; Index.