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Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century - Couverture souple

Anderson, Lisa

 
9780231126076: Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0231126077 ISBN 13 : 9780231126076
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2005

Synopsis

The dean of one of America's leading school of public affairs weighs in on the relationship between academia and policy-making. Anderson reveals a deep compromise that arose as the modern social sciences were born in the nursery of late nineteenth century American liberalism: social scientists would dedicate themselves to the pursuit of objective, empirically verifiable truth, while relinquishing the exercise of power to governments and their agents. She argues that this compromise helped underwrite the expansion of American influence in the twentieth century, and that it needs serious reexamination at the dawn of the twenty-first.

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À propos de l'auteur

Lisa Anderson is dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231126077
ISBN 13 
9780231126076
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
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Personne responsable
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