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Title Integrating the sciences and society : Challenges, practices, and potentials / edited by Harriet Hartman
Published Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (300 pages)
Series Research in social problems and public policy ; v. 16, 0196-1152
Research in social problems and public policy ; v. 16. 0196-1152
Summary Discusses policy sciences, public policy analysis and public management. This book addresses operations and design issues for government organizations. Even today, many people think of 'social problems' as involving poor and powerless individuals in society. "Research in Social Problems and Public Policy" seeks to improve the balance by adding a focus on important and powerful institutions. Such organizations often play key roles in managing, and mismanaging, the ways in which some of today's most important social problems are handled by the public policy system. The book series are compiled and written by the most highly regarded authors in their fields and are selected from across the globe. The papers discuss policy sciences, public policy analysis and public management. It addresses operations and design issues for government organizations
Subject Applied sociology.
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
Interdisciplinary research.
Form Electronic book
Author Hartman, Harriet, 1948-
ISBN 1848552998
9781848552999