(Source: University of Bath) Towards the end of his career, in 2005, the US political scientist Harold Wilensky wrote a journal article in which he tried to explain - to himself as much as to others - how and when social science had an impact on policymaking. He bemoaned what he saw as a tendency in the US for the government to invest in short-run empirical studies and policy evaluations in preference to basic research and integrated, multidisciplinary thinking. More generally, he observed a tighter fit between research and policymaking in the corporatist countries of northern Europe than in the liberal market economies. But he ended on an optimistic note, arguing that, in the long run, it...
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