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A Science of Politics: The American History of Scientific Policy and Policymaking
From: Columbia University
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Lisa Anderson |
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION |
Over the last 100 years, the focus and objectives of social science research have changed. Private funding and progressive-era reforms in the United States in the late 1900s drove the development of scientific approaches to the study of human society and behavior and helped shape a uniquely American area of study. In this Schoff Memorial Lecture, Lisa Anderson, dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, traces the history of social science and public policy in the United States and explores how the social science discipline evolved with the growth of the modern welfare state. |
Lisa Anderson describes the evolution of the relationship between social scientists and policymakers in the United States and examines the ways in which US social scientists differed from their European counterparts. |
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