Who's program of health for all by the year 2000: A macrosystem for health policy making—a challenge to social science research

1980 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 381-386
Author(s):  
John H. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Year 2000

Facing the Future

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-216
Author(s):  
Lise Butler
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Social Science Journal ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectual Networks ◽  
Negative Income Tax

This chapter examines Young’s work as founding chair of the Social Science Research Council between 1965 and 1968 in the Labour government led by Harold Wilson. It describes how Young responded to increasing anxieties about the nature of planning and expertise in the British civil service by arguing that the social sciences should play a more prominent role in government policy making. The chapter focuses mainly on Young’s Committee on the Next Thirty Years, and his proposals for an Institute of Forecasting Studies, which he unsuccessfully sought to develop as part of a transnational forecasting movement with the support of foreign intellectuals such as the American sociologist Daniel Bell and the French futurologist Bertrand de Jouvenel. The chapter also discusses the intellectual networks associated with the popular social science journal New Society, showing that this group promoted libertarian and state-critical perspectives on urban planning, and radical economic ideas like negative income tax. While the Next Thirty Years Committee was short-lived, it reflected Young’s career-long conviction that public policy should be guided by interdisciplinary social science.

Justitiebeleid in de jaren zeventig

Res Publica ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-369
Author(s):  
Luc Huyse ◽  
Lode Van Outrive ◽  
Cyriel Fynaut ◽  
Lieven Dupont ◽  
Tony Peters
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
National Government ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Department Of Justice

The authors discuss «judicial» policy-making in the seventies by such various actors as police authorities, local and national government, the Bar associations, legal aid agencies, the judiciary, and prison  authorities.  They stress the quasi-absence of reliable statistical information, of good annual reports, and of the minimum goodwill of the authorities that would open this area for social science research. They also analyse some of the major decisions that have been made by the Belgian department of justice in the last ten years.

scholarly journals Social science research on Indigenous wildfire management in the 21st century and future research needs

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Christianson
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Wildfire Management ◽  
Year 2000

This article reviews social science research on Indigenous wildfire management in Australia, Canada and the United States after the year 2000 and explores future research needs in the field. In these three countries, social science research exploring contemporary Indigenous wildfire management has been limited although there have been interesting findings about how Indigenous culture and knowledge influences fire management. Research with Indigenous communities may be limited not because of a lack of interest by social scientists, but rather by obstacles to doing research with Indigenous communities, such as ethical and time concerns. Research needs on Indigenous wildfire management are presented, centred on the four pillars of emergency management (preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery).

scholarly journals Social Science Research Findings and Educational Policy Dilemmas

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven I. Miller ◽  
Marcel Fredericks
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Bell Curve ◽  
Science Models ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Relationship Of

The article attempts to raise several distinctions regarding the presumed relationship of social science research findings to social policy making. The distinctions are made using Glymour's critique of the Bell Curve. An argument is made that (1) social science models and research findings are largely irrelevant to the actual concerns of policy makers and (2) what is relevant, but overlooked by Glymour, is how ideological factors mediate the process. The forms that ideological mediation may take are indicated.

The Contribution of Social Science Research to Health Policy: The Royal Commission on the National Health Service

1981 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rex Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Social Science ◽  
National Health ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Services Evaluation

ABSTRACTThis article adopts a case study approach to examine the contribution of social science research to health policy. It concentrates exclusively on the recent Royal Commission on the National Health Service. After describing its background and modus operandi the paper goes on to assess the Report's utilization of social science research, both in its diagnosis and recommendations. This assessment suggests that while the Commissioners made relatively little use of research-based evidence in their diagnosis, their recommendations provide the basis for a substantial increase in the contribution of social sicentists, particularly in the field of health services evaluation.

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