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Select Your Social Scientist with Care

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A public policy-oriented research project in Australia is used to point out the connections between typical social science motivations, such as moral criticism, truth-seeking and policy-guidance, and the research styles which such motivations produce, such as advocacy, impracticality and expediency. Each style's reliability, fundamentalism and policy applicability are discussed and suggestions are made for testing research validity. Finally, it is shown how policy makers can interpret advice from the different sorts of social scientist more intelligently.

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  • Wyatt, Ray, 1984. "Select Your Social Scientist with Care," Journal of Public Policy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 4(1), pages 57-71, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jnlpup:v:4:y:1984:i:01:p:57-71_00
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