Economic Theory - General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Public Policies, Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Theoretical, Macroeconomics - General & Miscellaneous, Political Philosophy, Privatization, Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
As dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, Lisa Anderson has a unique vantage point on the intersection of social sciences and public-policy formation. How do, or should, the research and findings of the academy affect foreign or domestic policy today? Why are politicians often quick to dismiss professors as irrelevant, while scholars often shrink from engagement as agents of social or political change? There is a tension at work here, and it reveals a deeper 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. Anderson argues that although this compromise helped underwrite the expansion of American influence in the twentieth century, it needs serious reexamination at the dawn of the twenty-first.Editorials
International Studies Review -
Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power is an important, argumentative, and highly accessible book that should interest social scientists and public policy practitioners alike...It should be required reading for students of social science in general, and students of public policy in particular.
Public Administration Review
This book offers a unique perspective on the interplay of the social sciences and public policy and discusses the emerging challenges with the privatization of the public sector and globalization of social sciences.
International Studies Review
Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power is an important, argumentative, and highly accessible book that should interest social scientists and public policy practitioners alike...It should be required reading for students of social science in general, and students of public policy in particular.— Johan Eriksson
Book Details
Published
September 26, 2003
Publisher
New York ; Columbia University Press, c2003.
Pages
176
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780231126069