Journal articles: 'Social sciences -> political science -> public policy'

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Baldock, Cora V., Jacqueline Goodnow, and Carole Pateman. "Women, Social Science and Public Policy." Contemporary Sociology 16, no. 5 (September 1987): 626. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2069734.

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Oromaner, Mark, Stuart S. Nagel, and Lisa A. Bievenue. "Social Science, Law, and Public Policy." Social Forces 73, no. 1 (September 1994): 326. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2579936.

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King, Gary. "Restructuring the Social Sciences: Reflections from Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science." PS: Political Science & Politics 47, no. 01 (December 29, 2013): 165–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096513001534.

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AbstractThe social sciences are undergoing a dramatic transformation from studying problems to solving them; from making do with a small number of sparse data sets to analyzing increasing quantities of diverse, highly informative data; from isolated scholars toiling away on their own to larger scale, collaborative, interdisciplinary, lab-style research teams; and from a purely academic pursuit focused inward to having a major impact on public policy, commerce and industry, other academic fields, and some of the major problems that affect individuals and societies. In the midst of all this productive chaos, we have been building the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard, a new type of center intended to help foster and respond to these broader developments. We offer here some suggestions from our experiences for the increasing number of other universities that have begun to build similar institutions and for how we might work together to advance social science more generally.

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Bergenheim, Sophy. "The population, its health and social sciences." Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 35, no. 2 (April 2018): 84–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1455072518765325.

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This commentary provides a glimpse into a conceptual history approach to the topic of public health. I focus primarily on the history of public health during the first half of the 20th century. I will also reflect on its entanglement with the social sciences in later times. The first two sections discuss three core elements of the concept of public health: the “public” or collective that the term refers to, “health”, and finally, “public health” as “health of a collective”. These elements are historical and political concepts, which means that they do not have a fixed definition, but need to be placed in their historical and political contexts. In the final section, I discuss some connections between social science and public health during the 20th century.

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Baum, Fran, Adam Graycar, Toni Delany-Crowe, Evelyne de Leeuw, Carol Bacchi, Jennie Popay, Lionel Orchard, et al. "Understanding Australian policies on public health using social and political science theories: reflections from an Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Workshop." Health Promotion International 34, no. 4 (April 19, 2018): 833–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/day014.

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AbstractThere is strong, and growing, evidence documenting health inequities across the world. However, most governments do not prioritize policies to encourage action on the social determinants of health and health equity. Furthermore, despite evidence concerning the benefits of joined-up, intersectoral policy to promote health and health equity, it is rare for such policy approaches to be applied systematically. To examine the usefulness of political and social science theory in understanding the reasons for this disjuncture between evidence and practice, researchers and public servants gathered in Adelaide for an Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) Workshop. This paper draws together the learnings that emerged from the Workshop, including key messages about the usefulness of various theories as well as insights drawn from policy practice. Discussions during the Workshop highlighted that applying multiple theories is particularly helpful in directing attention to, and understanding, the influence of all stages of the policy process; from the construction and framing of policy problems, to the implementation of policy and evaluation of outcomes, including those outcomes that may be unintended. In addition, the Workshop emphasized the value of collaborations among public health researchers, political and social scientists and public servants to open up critical discussion about the intersections between theory, research evidence and practice. Such critique is vital to render visible the processes through which particular sources of knowledge may be privileged over others and to examine how political and bureaucratic environments shape policy proposals and implementation action.

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Punina, K. A. "POLITICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES: TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH IN TEACHING PROCESS." Вестник Пермского университета. Политология 16, no. 2 (2022): 123–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2218-1067-2022-2-123-126.

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The transformation of the understanding and implementation of environmental policy in modern Russia brings the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the training of specialists working in this field to the forefront. Civil society is actively involved in the decision-making process on environmental protection. As a unifying principle for politics and ecology, the public ecology that is still being formed in Russia has been chosen. It actively involves society in generating, solving and evaluating these decisions in the political, social and environmental spheres. In the Perm Region, there are frequent cases of integration of experts from the field of ecology and politics to initiate and make management decisions on the environmental agenda and within the framework of sustainable development. This expert community decided to join forces and develop a joint master program "Public Ecology and Public Policy". Graduates of the program will be able to work in state and local authorities responsible for the environmental situation. They will become versatile specialists and will influence management decision-making, justifying them in a reasoned manner. In addition, they will be able to apply their knowledge in the field of environmental consulting, marketing and communications, as well as journalism that reveals the environmental problems of modern society.

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Snanfi, Ferinandus Leonardo. "IMPACT ONLINE LEARNING POLICY DROPS SEMESTER GRADES OF STUDENTS OF FISIP IN CENDERAWASIH UNIVERSITY YEAR 2020-2021." Sosiohumaniora 24, no. 2 (July 4, 2022): 160. http://dx.doi.org/10.24198/sosiohumaniora.v24i2.38177.

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This study aims to investigate the impact online learning policy, issued Ministry of Education and Culture Republic of Indonesia, followed Rector of Cendrawasih University and Dean of Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. Policy impact drops semester grades students from seven program studies in Faculty of Social and Political Sciences: Governance Science, Public Administration, Business Administration, International Relations, Anthropology, Welfare, and Library. To analyze problem, Merilee S. Grindle’s policy theory was used. Qualitative research method. The study was conducted in Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of Cenderawasih University year 2020-2021. Study involves 20 respondents: 8 are lecturers of Faculty of Social and Political Sciences and 12 are students of Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. Qualitative analyzed method was used; data collection methods interview, observation, documentation have been analyzed according to the reality. The result shows that the second semester grades of students of batch 2021 drastically drop due to internet trouble, unavailable facilities, infrastructures, and server building for Wi-Fi in Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Cenderawasih University, districts in Papua Province, and districts in West Papua Province. Recommendation for Dean of Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of Cenderawasih University, Rector of Cenderawasih University, Ministry of Education and Culture Republic of Indonesia is to allow face to face learning with number of students grouped into several daily shifts and good implementation of covid-19 health protocols in Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of Cenderawasih University.

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Pelton, Leroy H. "Misinforming public policy: The illiberal uses of social science." Society 37, no. 5 (July 2000): 61–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-000-1039-5.

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Anton, Thomas J., and Martin Bulmer. "Social Science and Social Policy." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 8, no. 1 (1989): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3324436.

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Goodlad, Robina, and Sheila Riddell. "Social Justice and Public Policy." Social Policy and Society 4, no. 1 (January 2005): 107–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746404002234.

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1 Key texts A basic introduction to political philosophy, covering social justice and related issues well is: Kymlicka, W. (2002), Contemporary political philosophy: an introduction, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Wright, James D., and Duncan MacRae. "Policy Indicators: Links between Social Science and Public Debate." Contemporary Sociology 15, no. 1 (January 1986): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2070998.

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Eriksson, Johan. "Research for Whom? Social Science and Public Policy." International Studies Review 6, no. 2 (June 2004): 333–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1521-9488.2004.00418.x.

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Rogers, James M. "SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES AND POLICY RESEARCH: THE CASE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE." Review of Policy Research 9, no. 1 (September 1989): 13–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-1338.1989.tb01018.x.

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Ho, Shirley S., Jiemin Looi, Yan Wah Leung, and Tong Jee Goh. "Public engagement by researchers of different disciplines in Singapore: A qualitative comparison of macro- and meso-level concerns." Public Understanding of Science 29, no. 2 (November 28, 2019): 211–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662519888761.

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Guided by neo-institutional theory, this study compares how researchers from science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines differ from researchers from the arts, humanities, and social sciences fields in terms of how macro- and meso-level concerns shaped their willingness to conduct public engagement. Focus group discussions conducted among researchers based in Singapore revealed that science, technology, engineering, and math and arts, humanities, and social sciences researchers held different macro-level concerns. Particularly, science, technology, engineering, and math researchers raised more concerns about media misrepresentation, while arts, humanities, and social sciences researchers were more concerned about receiving political repercussions and public backlash. With regard to meso-level considerations, researchers from all disciplines cited similar institutional constraints for public engagement; however they possessed varying public engagement competencies and held differing perceptions of their social duty to engage the public. Hence, researchers of different disciplines desired different kinds of media training. Policy and managerial implications as well as directions for future research were provided.

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Land, Kenneth C., and Duncan MacRae. "Policy Indicators: Links between Social Science and Public Debate." Social Forces 65, no. 1 (September 1986): 260. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2578948.

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Edwards, Meredith. "Social Science Research and Public Policy: Narrowing the Divide1." Australian Journal of Public Administration 64, no. 1 (March 2005): 68–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8500.2005.00417.x.

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Blank, Robert H., Lynton K. Caldwell, Thomas C. Wiegele, and Raymond A. Zilinskas. "Biotechnology, Public Policy, and the Social Sciences: Critical Needs in Teaching and Research." Politics and the Life Sciences 6, no. 1 (August 1987): 64–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s073093840000277x.

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Science-based biotechnology is now introducing fundamental changes in the status of life on earth which have major implications for human society, yet the social sciences are largely failing to address these changes. Biotechnology offers immense opportunities for advancing the quality of human life, holding promise for overcoming numerous and heretofore intractable causes of suffering and impoverishment. Moreover, it may enable mankind to enjoy the benefits of science without degradation of the biosphere. But to obtain these advantages biotechnology must be guided by wise and timely public policies. Even the most beneficent innovation may create problems that, unless anticipated and prevented, may offset or cancel out social gains.

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Wallner, Jennifer. "Political Structures, Social Diversity, and Public Policy." Comparative Political Studies 45, no. 7 (December 8, 2011): 850–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010414011428590.

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Mandatory education systems form a central pillar of modern social policy sectors. For two of the countries in North America, the expansion of mass public schooling followed similar trajectories. Despite surface-level similarities, there are important differences in the two countries that require explanation. Without national intervention, the Canadian provinces have instituted similar policies fashioning a de facto national education policy framework. State and local education policy, however, demonstrates major variations that Washington has been unable to smooth out. These outcomes confound conventional institutional or societal approaches. This article calls first for a synthesis of macro-level institutional and societal factors. To unravel the sector-specific attributes, the interactive effects of meso-level policy choices must be assessed. By dividing a sector into its individual dimensions, these effects can be appreciated and coupled with the institutional and societal forces outlined above to account for the distinctive features of Canadian and American mandatory education.

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Miller, Trudi C., and Duncan MacRae. "Policy Indicators: Links between Social Science and Public Debate." Public Administration Review 46, no. 4 (July 1986): 366. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/976313.

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Carruthers, Bruce G. "Can social science numbers save public policy from politics?" Regulation & Governance 3, no. 3 (September 2009): 287–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5991.2009.01055.x.

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Atwood, K., G. A. Colditz, and I. Kawachi. "From public health science to prevention policy: placing science in its social and political contexts." American Journal of Public Health 87, no. 10 (October 1997): 1603–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.87.10.1603.

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SELEZNEVA, ANTONINA VLADIMIROVNA, and AZAMAT KHAMZATOVICH TOMAEV. "YOUTH POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN THE FOCUS PF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS." Moscow University Bulletin. Series 12. Political Science, no. 2023, №2 (November 28, 2023): 7–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.55959/msu0868-4871-12-2023-1-2-7-25.

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The article presents political-psychological approach to understanding youth political leadership. This approach has complex character and allows to implement interdisciplinary synthesis of the provisions of different branches of social sciences and humanities to study the considered phenomenon in the framework of political science subject field. We highlight such basic parameters to determine youth political leaders as origin from the sphere of youth policy, young people’s perception of such leaders as their own representatives, promotion of the career ladder in public policy and public administration. This study identifies and conceptually substantiates three dimensions of youth political leadership: personal-professional, status-role, image-symbolic. The article considers personal qualities and professional characteristics which are necessary for youth political leaders, status-role positions in the system of power hierarchy, career trajectories and political recruiting specificity, the features of youth political leaders’ image shaping in the consciousness of youth.

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Pearson, Robert W. "Book Review: The Uneasy Partnership between Social Science and Public Policy." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 600, no. 1 (July 2005): 157–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716205276656.

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Skidmore, Max J. "Commentary: Modern Political Economy and Public Policy." World Affairs 182, no. 2 (April 3, 2019): 187–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0043820019839079.

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This article directly and bluntly challenges traditional thought by casting aside conventional wisdom regarding the national economy, replacing it with Modern Political Economy and Public Policy. American national policies, I argue, should always, whenever possible, be universal, not targeted toward specific groups. Moreover, policies need to be crafted to achieve their goals, not to fit within budgetary constraints. The least government is the worst, not the best, and a miserly approach to spending is not “wise use of the taxpayers’ dollars.” The national government controls the currency, paying its bills in dollars. It issues dollars as needed, in whatever amount it chooses, and is unrestrained by the need to “find the money” or “pay-as-you-go.” Taxes are useful for purposes of regulation and control of income inequality, but are not relevant to expenditures. “Anything that is technically feasible,” I claim following Kelton and coauthors, “is financially affordable,” and there is no need to fear inflation so long as spending does not exceed the productive capacity of the economy. Despite conventional wisdom to the contrary, and regardless of the widely used jargon of politicians, when government spends, it is not using “The Taxpayers’ Money.”

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Rappert, B. "Users and Social Science Research: Policy, Problems and Possibilities." Sociological Research Online 2, no. 3 (September 1997): 69–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.109.

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Recent times have seen a significant reorientation in public funding for academic research across many countries. Public bodies in the UK have been at the forefront of such activities, typically justified in terms of a need to meet the challenges of international competitiveness and improve quality of life. One set of mechanisms advanced for further achieving these goals is the incorporation of users’ needs into various aspects of the research process. This paper examines some of the consequences of greater user involvement in the UK Economic and Social Research Council by drawing on both empirical evidence and more speculative argumentation. In doing so it poses some of the dilemmas for conceptualizing proper user involvement.

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Lynch, Marc. "Political Science in Real Time: Engaging the Middle East Policy Public." Perspectives on Politics 14, no. 1 (March 2016): 121–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592715003266.

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A decade ago, very few political scientists had either the opportunity or the incentive to engage with the political public in a direct, unmediated way. Today, there is a dense and eclectic ecosystem of political science and international relations-focused blogs and online publications, where good work can easily find an audience through social media. There are multiple initiatives dedicated to supporting academic interventions in the public sphere, and virtually every political or cultural magazine of note now offers a robust online section featuring commentary and analysis in which political scientists are well represented. This has transformed publication for a broader public from something exotic to something utterly routine. I discuss how these changes have affected individual scholars, the field of political science, and the political world with which we are engaged.

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Larimer, Christopher W., and Steven A. Peterson. "Biological approaches to public administration and public policy." Politics and the Life Sciences 38, no. 2 (2019): 113–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pls.2019.19.

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AbstractThis special issue considers the relationship of the life sciences to both public policy and public administration. This makes sense because the bureaucratic process and public administration are deeply involved in the policy process and the development of substantive public policy. The two subjects are intertwined. And a biological perspective can illuminate many aspects of both. That is the focus of this issue.

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Tzfadia, Erez. "Academic Discourse on Making New Towns in Israel: Three Approaches in Social Science." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 23, no. 4 (August 2005): 475–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/c41m.

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This paper places the making of twenty-eight new development towns in the Israeli periphery at the junction of political ideologies, spatial policy, and academic discourse. The objective of the paper is to delineate the policy of making the development towns and the reasons explaining their relatively disadvantaged state against the backdrop of three master approaches in the social sciences in the 20th century: the modernist – functionalist approach, particularly the planning perspective within this approach; the neo-Marxist approach; and the colonial approach. Each places the planning and establishment of the new towns within a wider political context and sociospatial structure, hence suggesting different explanations for the backwardness. Yet, combining the approaches yields a comprehensive picture of the towns. Finally, the juxtaposition of these master approaches with the making of new towns elucidates the contribution of geography and public policy to the general discourse in social science. That said, it also exposes the weaknesses of the modern and rational approaches, and portrayed public policy and spatial planning as ingredients of multilayered control and domination, which are expressed in cultural (ethnic), geographical, and economic terms.

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Zeigler, Robert S. "Plant sciences, public policies and food security." Outlook on Agriculture 48, no. 3 (August 20, 2019): 220–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0030727019868776.

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Food security was a major global concern in the second half of the 20th century. A positive feedback loop between public policy and technological innovation created abundant food supplies that averted predictions of famine and social chaos. Following the successful global effort to combat hunger, policy attention turned to problems of the environmental footprint of agriculture and other nutrition and diet-related health problems. Policies are developed in response to challenges presented by technology-induced change. As the rate of technological change accelerates, policy makers struggle to keep up and policies risk becoming irrelevant or stymying positive impact of innovation. Public or philanthropic investments created the foundation for private investment in technologies that have been widely adopted. As the public sector reduces its investments in research and development, it is not clear that the private sector has the appetite or means to make the needed investments. Examples of challenges facing agriculture and food security include access to and use of genetic resources, genetically modified crops and the global community’s ability to respond to and mitigate human-induced climate change. Proposed solutions to the world’s many serious challenges almost invariably involve some kind of coordinated and coherent multilateral institutional actions. Yet, today, global political trends appear to be shifting to more unilateral, bilateral and nationalistic perspectives hampering our capacity to respond effectively.

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Nagel, Stuart S. "Policy Studies Across Social Science Substance." Policy Studies Journal 20, no. 3 (September 1992): 499–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.1992.tb00176.x.

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Radosteva, Ya N. "Possibilities of Using Political Science Methodology in Social Entrepreneurship Research." Education and Science without Limits Fundamental and Applied Researches, no. 17 (2023): 188–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.36683/2500-249x/2023-17/188-190.

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The article is devoted to main methods of political science and the possibilities of their application in the study of new phenomenon of public life – social entrepreneurship. The author comes to the conclusion that the use of general scientific and private, empirical and theoretical methods, with historical, systemic, structural and functional methods among them, as well as the psychological method will allow studying social entrepreneurship com-prehensively. The results obtained should form the basis of the state policy being developed to support social entrepreneurship in Russia.

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Zanin, Sergey. "“Science Policy” and “Policy for Science” in the Second Half of the 20th Century." ISTORIYA 14, no. 11 (133) (2023): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840029108-7.

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The article discusses various aspects of the formation of science policy and shows the difference between “science policy” and “policy for science”. If the first includes the procedure for making a “political decision” by the subjects of the political process, then the second during the second half of the twentieth century. aimed at incorporating science into politics. It was found that science is a complex object of a “political decision”, since, on the one hand, by its nature, in the process of creating scientific knowledge, it is “loaded with decisions”, and on the other hand, “scientific practices” within the scientific community are not exclusive, but inclusive. Science is integrated into social processes, therefore, in the second half of the 20th century not only power relations in society are characterized by “pluralism”, but the decisions themselves in “scientific policy” are made, so to speak, “polycentrically”, not being the exclusive prerogative of the state or political authorities. The second part of the article examines various aspects of “politics for science” in the era of “neoliberal” and “neoconservative” governments in power in a number of foreign countries. During the neoliberal era of the 1960s and 1970s belief in the perfection of scientific instruments in modeling processes in nature and in society in order to ensure “general welfare” determined the vector of “policy for science”. However, this instruments itselfs turned out to be far from perfection. Starting with a call to “liberate private initiative”, optimize public spending on science, and “attract funding” from the business, the neoconservatives came to the “privatization of science” and to setting purely applied tasks for it, abandoning the previous “global policy for science”. The politics of neo-conservative governments eventually led to the devaluation of the “policy for science” and “policy for science” as such disappeared as it was replaced by “metrics management”. Taking into account the involvement of science in the political, social and cultural processes of modern society, it is proposed to return both “politics for science” and “scientific policy”, making it a full-fledged subject of making a “political decision”.

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Cheremnykh, Larisa G. "Transhumanist Aspect of Public Policy." Общество: философия, история, культура, no. 10 (October 18, 2023): 86–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.24158/fik.2023.10.11.

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The relevance of the study lies in the need for a comprehensive assessment of the consequences of the im-plementation of the transhumanist concept in sociocultural practices. Until recently, political and legal institu-tions went hand in hand with human evolution and legitimized the resulting social transformations at the state level. However, the socio-cybernetic evolution that began at the end of the last century significantly accelerated the rhythm of life and changed the ontology of humanity. This circumstance forced political institutions to be proactive. Staking on human improvement with the help of high technologies, most modern states do not simp-ly stabilize society in all its diversity, but try to determine the optimal vector of social development and create a technological foundation for subsequent transformation. At the same time, particular attention is paid to the development of convergent technologies and the possibility of using them for the benefit of humanity.

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Ecker, Alejandro. "Estimating Policy Positions Using Social Network Data." Social Science Computer Review 35, no. 1 (August 3, 2016): 53–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894439315602662.

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Social network site (SNS) data provide scholars with a plethora of new opportunities for studying public opinion and forecasting electoral outcomes. While these are certainly among the most promising big data applications in political science research, a series of pioneering studies have started to uncover the vast potential of such data to estimate the policy positions of political actors. Adding to this emerging strand in the scholarly literature, the present article explores the validity of (individual) policy positions derived from the social network structure of the microblogging platform Twitter. At the aggregate party level, cross-validation with external data sources suggests that SNS data provide valid policy position estimates. In contrast, the empirical analysis reveals only a moderate connection between individual policy positions retrieved from the social network structure and those retrieved from members of parliament individual voting record. These results thus highlight the potential as well as important limitations of SNS data in indicating the policy positions of political parties and individual legislators.

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Mirabella, Roseanne M. "Social Science and Public Policy - Duncan MacRaeJr.: Policy Indicators: Links between Social Science and Public Debate. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Pp. 414. $36.00.)." Review of Politics 48, no. 4 (1986): 644–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670500039796.

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Lewandowsky, Stephan, Konstantinos Armaos, Hendrik Bruns, Philipp Schmid, Dawn Liu Holford, Ulrike Hahn, Ahmed Al-Rawi, Sunita Sah, and John Cook. "When Science Becomes Embroiled in Conflict: Recognizing the Public’s Need for Debate while Combating Conspiracies and Misinformation." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 700, no. 1 (March 2022): 26–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00027162221084663.

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We explore the common attributes of political conflicts in which scientific findings have a central role, using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, but also drawing on long-standing conflicts over climate change and vaccinations. We analyze situations in which the systematic spread of disinformation or conspiracy theories undermines public trust in the work of scientists and prevents policy from being informed by the best available evidence. We also examine instances in which public opposition to scientifically grounded policy arises from legitimate value judgments and lived experience. We argue for the public benefit of quick identification of politically motivated science denial, and inoculation of the public against its ill effects.

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Urbanowski, Reg, Lynn Shaw, and Linda Chelagat Chemmuttut. "Occupational Science Value Propositions in the Field of Public Policy." Journal of Occupational Science 20, no. 4 (October 2013): 314–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2013.806208.

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Maravelakis, Petros. "The use of statistics in social sciences." Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences 1, no. 2 (November 15, 2019): 87–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhass-08-2019-0038.

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Purpose The purpose this paper is to review some of the statistical methods used in the field of social sciences. Design/methodology/approach A review of some of the statistical methodologies used in areas like survey methodology, official statistics, sociology, psychology, political science, criminology, public policy, marketing research, demography, education and economics. Findings Several areas are presented such as parametric modeling, nonparametric modeling and multivariate methods. Focus is also given to time series modeling, analysis of categorical data and sampling issues and other useful techniques for the analysis of data in the social sciences. Indicative references are given for all the above methods along with some insights for the application of these techniques. Originality/value This paper reviews some statistical methods that are used in social sciences and the authors draw the attention of researchers on less popular methods. The purpose is not to give technical details and also not to refer to all the existing techniques or to all the possible areas of statistics. The focus is mainly on the applied aspect of the techniques and the authors give insights about techniques that can be used to answer problems in the abovementioned areas of research.

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Gunnlaugsson, Helgi. "Going Public with Social Science: Crime and Criminal Justice Policy in Iceland." Social Problems 48, no. 1 (February 2001): 88–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sp.2001.48.1.88.

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Steffen, Monika, and Eric Margolis. "Research in Social Policy, Vol. 6: AIDS Research/AIDS Policy: Competing Paradigms of Science and Public Policy." Contemporary Sociology 28, no. 2 (March 1999): 231. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2654905.

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Ascher, William, and Barbara Hirschfelder-Ascher. "Linking Lasswell’s political psychology and the policy sciences." Policy Sciences 37, no. 1 (March 2004): 23–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/b:olic.0000035460.18318.b0.

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Solovyov, Alexander. "LATENT FUNCTIONALITY OF PUBLIC POLICY." Political Science (RU), no. 3 (2022): 57–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.31249/poln/2022.03.03.

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Understanding public policy as a special form of power rivalry between state and non-state actors reflects the complex interrelationships of open and latent technologies used by them. Along with legal methods of political interaction hidden from society (secreting state secrets, conducting confidential negotiations), latent tools are constantly used to promote the interests of large political investors, unknown to society and most often located outside the public space. However, their actual influence on the centers of state power and administration is inevitably reflected in the content of public policy, which is forced to use the conventional norms of open competition and public expression of positions to promote such interests. In its substantive expression, the latent functionality of public policy is formed within the framework of three social arenas emerging in the state: in the zones of contesting the power dispositions of the Center, making state decisions and organizing mass discourse. The specific forms of solving these hidden tasks are ultimately determined by the nature of the ruling regime and the level of civil activity of the population, its political competencies and ability to use institutional capabilities to control the ruling circles.

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Grundmann, Reiner. "Otto Neurath’s Relevance for Science Policy Debates." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 57, no. 4 (2020): 138–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps202057467.

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Debates about the role of science in policy making have highlighted the uneasy relationship between knowledge and decision making. Recent high-profile examples include climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. On the one hand there is an intertwinement between facts and values. On the other hand, there is a tension between the acknowledgement of scientific uncertainty and the justification of political action. This sometimes finds political solutions that are perceived as unsound and unsatisfactory. Some perceive the policies as too weak, some as too strong. Both appeal to fundamental values such as health, wealth, security, freedom, equality, or solidarity. In this article I will argue that we need a more open debate about these issues and a deeper understanding of what is at issue in science policy debates. I shall do so by referring to a Neurathian framework. Neurath’s legacy survives mainly in the history and philosophy of science but is largely forgotten in policy studies and sociology. This needs rectifying, especially in light of the fact that he anticipated central insights that have been attributed to later authors such as Fleck and Kuhn.The paper has the following structure. I first provide some historical and intellectual context by looking at the Vienna Circle and some biographical background about Neurath’s views, and his political engagement. I then examine his epistemology, especially his view of science and the social sciences, leading to his anti-foundationalism. Finally, I turn to the public policy literature which has produced results that partly overlap with, and partly contradict Neurath’s views.

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Cole, Alistair, and John Loughlin. "Beyond the Unitary State? Public Opinion, Political Institutions and Public Policy in Brittany." Regional Studies 37, no. 3 (May 2003): 265–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0034340032000065424.

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Hewa, Soma. "SOCIOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY: THE DEBATE ON VALUE‐FREE SOCIAL SCIENCE." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 13, no. 1/2 (January 1993): 64–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb013167.

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Maddox, George L., and Fred C. Pampel. "Aging, Social Inequality, and Public Policy." Contemporary Sociology 28, no. 3 (May 1999): 302. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2654157.

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Yakunin, V. I. "Public Policy Agenda in a Turbulent World." Governance and Politics 2, no. 3 (November 27, 2023): 8–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2782-7062-2023-2-3-8-24.

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The world is experiencing dramatic transformations determined by political and economic shifts in the roles of the West and the East, the North and the South. These changes pose huge challenges on the global and national levels, testing international institutions and national governments and creating crises on all levels and in different spheres. The article examines how the public policy agenda is changing under permanent shocks. The author comes to the conclusion that the public policy agenda is under the pressure of short-term and emergency-oriented tasks in expense of strategic issues, but in order to provide sustainable development, the governments should support long-term projects, internal social coherence and external mutual dialogue, using the most advanced tools of social and natural sciences, as well as the opportunities of digitalization. Only this proactive, but careful and civilizationally grounded approach will provide peaceful solution of current and future challenges.

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Montgomery, David. "From Scientific Socialism to Political Science?" International Labor and Working-Class History 46 (1994): 63–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014754790001084x.

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Ira Katznelson has proposed that we labor historians can recover our lost élan by engaging the agenda of liberalism. Although he acknowledges that today's writings on working-class history are variegated and richly rewarding, he regrets that they have become uncoupled from controversies over public policy and social change and run the risk of becoming little more than “sentimental reminders of times lost and aspirations disappointed.”To revitalize our sense of engagement he recommends that we call a halt to “the continuing flight within labor history from institutional-political analysis.” We should focus our attention on historical relationships between the state and civil society, and we should inform our analyses with the political theory that historically has assumed its shape around those relationships: liberalism.

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Royed, Terry J., and Stephen A. Borrelli. "Political Parties and Public Policy: Social Welfare Policy from Carter to Bush." Polity 29, no. 4 (June 1997): 539–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3235267.

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Ackers, Peter. "Pluralisms? Social philosophy, social science and public policy in employment relations and human resource management." Journal of Industrial Relations 63, no. 2 (January 20, 2021): 263–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022185620983970.

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Alan Fox's frames of reference has sparked over half a century of debate between employment relations/human resource management pluralists, radicals and unitarists. But the notion of industrial relations pluralism itself continues to be highly disputed. This commentary tracks the journey from classical pluralism to neo-pluralism, then addresses three articles that offer a variety of radical pluralist alternatives. A fourth paper discussed, suggests a quantitative approach to testing Fox's frames, but this article makes a case for retaining the qualitative, case study method. A fifth explores the revival of paternalism on the border between unitarism and pluralism. Overall, the article argues that classical pluralism, based on trade unions and collective bargaining, is now outdated, but that neo-pluralism is capable of carrying forward its pragmatic, institutional spirit to explore the empirical complexity of contemporary employment relationships around the world. Finally, the discussion of employment relations pluralisms needs to re-engage with the wider political pluralism debate about liberal democratic societies and market economies.

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