This collection of original essays explores the various dimensions of social scientists' participation in policy-making.
Introduction Policy Communities and the Social Sciences by Stephen Brooks Theoretical Issues Rethinking Corporatism and Comparative Social Science: An Old-New Approach by Fredrick Appel and Alain-G. Gagnon Policy Networks and State Autonomy by Martin J. Smith New Social Movements and Routes to Representation: Science versus Politics by Susan D. Phillips Ideas, Institutions, and Innovation: Economic Policy in Canada and Sweden by Neil Bradford The Role of Institutes Policy Research Institutes and Liberalized International Services Exchange by Stephen D. McDowell Balancing Relevance and Integrity: Social Scientists and Canada's Asia-Pacific Policy Community by Evert A. Lindquist Foundations, Social Scientists, and Eastern Europe by Joan Roelofs and Erkki Berndtson From Radio Research to Communications Intelligence: Rockefeller Philanthropy, Communications Specialists and the American Policy Community by William Buxton
STEPHEN BROOKS has taught Political Science at universities in Canada and Belgium. He has collaborated with Alain-G. Gagnon on several books and articles that examine the relationship of intellectuals to politics. ALAIN-G. GAGNON has taught Political Science at Queen's University, Carleton University, and McGill. He specializes in the sociology of intellectuals, and social and political movements.
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