Books

Pub Date
2003
ISBN
9780231126076
Page Count
176

Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power

Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century

By Lisa Anderson (2000 Schoff Lecture)

Columbia University Press

The conditions that shaped the rise and expansion of American social science are rapidly changing, and with them, the terms of its relationship with power and policy. As globalization has diminished the role of the state as the locus of public policy in favor of NGOs, multinational corporations and other private entities, it has raised important questions about the future of the social sciences and their universalist pretensions.