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This collection of original essays explores the various dimensions of social scientists' participation in policy-making.

Table of Contents

Introduction Policy Communities and the Social Sciences by Stephen Brooks Theoretical Issues Rethinking Corporatism and Comparative Social Science: An Old-New Approach by Fredrick Appel and Alain-G. Gagnon Policy Networks and State Autonomy by Martin J. Smith New Social Movements and Routes to Representation: Science versus Politics by Susan D. Phillips Ideas, Institutions, and Innovation: Economic Policy in Canada and Sweden by Neil Bradford The Role of Institutes Policy Research Institutes and Liberalized International Services Exchange by Stephen D. McDowell Balancing Relevance and Integrity: Social Scientists and Canada's Asia-Pacific Policy Community by Evert A. Lindquist Foundations, Social Scientists, and Eastern Europe by Joan Roelofs and Erkki Berndtson From Radio Research to Communications Intelligence: Rockefeller Philanthropy, Communications Specialists and the American Policy Community by William Buxton

About the Author

STEPHEN BROOKS has taught Political Science at universities in Canada and Belgium. He has collaborated with Alain-G. Gagnon on several books and articles that examine the relationship of intellectuals to politics. ALAIN-G. GAGNON has taught Political Science at Queen's University, Carleton University, and McGill. He specializes in the sociology of intellectuals, and social and political movements.