Title Social science in government : the role of policy researchers / Richard P. Nathan

Edition New edition Published Albany, New York : The Rockefeller Institute Press, 2000 ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (229 pages) Series Rockefeller Institute Press Rockefeller Institute Press Contents Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the New Edition -- I. Introduction -- Chapter 1 � Applying Social Science to Government -- The Point of View of This Book -- The Role of Applied Social Science -- Endnotes -- Chapter 2 � Optimism and Disillusionment -- Applying Macroeconomics -- The Planning-Programming-Budgeting System -- Demonstration and Evaluation Research -- Doubts Arise -- Other Views -- Demise of the PPB System -- Assessing Demonstration and Evaluation Research -- Endnotes -- II. Demonstration Research Chapter 3 � The Nature of Demonstration ResearchThe Vocabulary of Demonstration Research -- The Negative Income Tax Demonstrations -- Other Income Maintenance Demonstrations -- Demonstrations of Service-Type Programs -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4 � Hurdles of Demonstration Research -- Selection Bias -- The Null Hypothesis -- Contamination -- Relations with Program Operators -- Quality and Consistency of Treatment -- Cost and Quality of Data -- Treatment of Human Subjects -- The Uncertainty of Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Conclusion -- Endnotes Chapter 5 � Welfare Demonstration StudiesSupported Work -- Results Focus on Welfare -- Implications for Welfare Reform -- MDRC�s Work/Welfare Demonstrations -- Endnotes -- III. Evaluation Research -- Chapter 6 � The Nature of Evaluation Research -- The Federalism Barrier Reef -- Scientific Implications -- Endnotes -- Chapter 7 � Evaluating the California GAIN Program -- The GAIN Process -- The MDRC Evaluation -- The Research Challenge -- Discoveries in the Implementation Process -- Endnotes Chapter 8 � The 1988 and 1996 National Welfare Reform LawsThe Family Support Act of 1988 -- The Personal Responsibility Act of 1996 -- Endnotes -- Chapter 9 �Evaluating the Family Support Act of 1988 -- Three Strategies -- Little Fanfare or Rhetoric -- Endnotes -- Chapter 10 � Evaluating the Personal Responsibility Act of l996 -- Changed Signals -- New Partners -- Diversion -- Sanctioning -- Political Detoxification -- Second Order Devolution -- Adaptability of the Research Process -- Endnotes Chapter 11 � Lessons from Evaluations of Employment and Training ProgramsThe CETA Public Service Employment Program -- The Complementarity Approach -- Studies of Individual Impacts under CETA -- Endnotes -- Chapter 12 � The Beginning of the Field Network Evaluation Methodology -- The Research Approach -- Endnotes -- IV. Conclusions -- Chapter 13 � Public Policy and Policy Research: Limits and Possibilities -- Evaluation Research � The Frontier of Applied Social Science -- The Demand for Policy Research -- Concluding Comments -- Endnotes -- Index Notes Includes index Print version record Subject Social sciences -- Research -- United States Policy sciences -- Research -- United States Policy sciences -- Research Politics and government Social sciences -- Research SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467 Subject United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781438436432 1438436432

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