Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Government Research
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Reviews use of Federal contracts and grants, especially by DOD, to support social science and behavioral research projects abroad and its implications on foreign relations and the academic and research communities. Focuses on alternative methods of conducting research abroad without compromising research efforts.
Federal Support of International Social Science and Behavioral Research
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Government Research
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Reviews use of Federal contracts and grants, especially by DOD, to support social science and behavioral research projects abroad and its implications on foreign relations and the academic and research communities. Focuses on alternative methods of conducting research abroad without compromising research efforts.
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Reviews use of Federal contracts and grants, especially by DOD, to support social science and behavioral research projects abroad and its implications on foreign relations and the academic and research communities. Focuses on alternative methods of conducting research abroad without compromising research efforts.
Federal Support of International Social Science and Behavioral Research
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Federal Drug Abuse and Drug Dependence Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics
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Category : Drug addicts
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
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Category : Drug addicts
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
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Full Opportunity Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Special Subcommittee on Evaluation and Planning of Social Programs
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Category : Social legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Category : Social legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Full Opportunity Act, Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Evaluation and Planning of Social Programs...91-1 and 2, on S. 5, July 7, 8, 10, 18; Dec. 18, 1969; and March 13, 1970
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Cult of the Irrelevant
Author: Michael Desch
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069122899X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
How professionalization and scholarly “rigor” made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policy To mobilize America’s intellectual resources to meet the security challenges of the post–9/11 world, US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates observed that “we must again embrace eggheads and ideas.” But the gap between national security policymakers and international relations scholars has become a chasm. In Cult of the Irrelevant, Michael Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Beltway and the Ivory Tower from World War I to the present day. Recounting key Golden Age academic strategists such as Thomas Schelling and Walt Rostow, Desch’s narrative shows that social science research became most oriented toward practical problem-solving during times of war and that scholars returned to less relevant work during peacetime. Social science disciplines like political science rewarded work that was methodologically sophisticated over scholarship that engaged with the messy realities of national security policy, and academic culture increasingly turned away from the job of solving real-world problems. In the name of scientific objectivity, academics today frequently engage only in basic research that they hope will somehow trickle down to policymakers. Drawing on the lessons of this history as well as a unique survey of current and former national security policymakers, Desch offers concrete recommendations for scholars who want to shape government work. The result is a rich intellectual history and an essential wake-up call to a field that has lost its way.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069122899X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
How professionalization and scholarly “rigor” made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policy To mobilize America’s intellectual resources to meet the security challenges of the post–9/11 world, US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates observed that “we must again embrace eggheads and ideas.” But the gap between national security policymakers and international relations scholars has become a chasm. In Cult of the Irrelevant, Michael Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Beltway and the Ivory Tower from World War I to the present day. Recounting key Golden Age academic strategists such as Thomas Schelling and Walt Rostow, Desch’s narrative shows that social science research became most oriented toward practical problem-solving during times of war and that scholars returned to less relevant work during peacetime. Social science disciplines like political science rewarded work that was methodologically sophisticated over scholarship that engaged with the messy realities of national security policy, and academic culture increasingly turned away from the job of solving real-world problems. In the name of scientific objectivity, academics today frequently engage only in basic research that they hope will somehow trickle down to policymakers. Drawing on the lessons of this history as well as a unique survey of current and former national security policymakers, Desch offers concrete recommendations for scholars who want to shape government work. The result is a rich intellectual history and an essential wake-up call to a field that has lost its way.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
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The Making of the Cold War Enemy
Author: Ron Theodore Robin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400830303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government enlisted the aid of a select group of psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to blueprint enemy behavior. Not only did these academics bring sophisticated concepts to what became a project of demonizing communist societies, but they influenced decision-making in the map rooms, prison camps, and battlefields of the Korean War and in Vietnam. With verve and insight, Ron Robin tells the intriguing story of the rise of behavioral scientists in government and how their potentially dangerous, "American" assumptions about human behavior would shape U.S. views of domestic disturbances and insurgencies in Third World countries for decades to come. Based at government-funded think tanks, the experts devised provocative solutions for key Cold War dilemmas, including psychological warfare projects, negotiation strategies during the Korean armistice, and morale studies in the Vietnam era. Robin examines factors that shaped the scientists' thinking and explores their psycho-cultural and rational choice explanations for enemy behavior. He reveals how the academics' intolerance for complexity ultimately reduced the nation's adversaries to borderline psychotics, ignored revolutionary social shifts in post-World War II Asia, and promoted the notion of a maniacal threat facing the United States. Putting the issue of scientific validity aside, Robin presents the first extensive analysis of the intellectual underpinnings of Cold War behavioral sciences in a book that will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in the era and its legacy.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400830303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government enlisted the aid of a select group of psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to blueprint enemy behavior. Not only did these academics bring sophisticated concepts to what became a project of demonizing communist societies, but they influenced decision-making in the map rooms, prison camps, and battlefields of the Korean War and in Vietnam. With verve and insight, Ron Robin tells the intriguing story of the rise of behavioral scientists in government and how their potentially dangerous, "American" assumptions about human behavior would shape U.S. views of domestic disturbances and insurgencies in Third World countries for decades to come. Based at government-funded think tanks, the experts devised provocative solutions for key Cold War dilemmas, including psychological warfare projects, negotiation strategies during the Korean armistice, and morale studies in the Vietnam era. Robin examines factors that shaped the scientists' thinking and explores their psycho-cultural and rational choice explanations for enemy behavior. He reveals how the academics' intolerance for complexity ultimately reduced the nation's adversaries to borderline psychotics, ignored revolutionary social shifts in post-World War II Asia, and promoted the notion of a maniacal threat facing the United States. Putting the issue of scientific validity aside, Robin presents the first extensive analysis of the intellectual underpinnings of Cold War behavioral sciences in a book that will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in the era and its legacy.
Advancing the Nation's Health Needs
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309094275
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
This report is the twelfth assessment of the National Institutes of Health National Research Service Awards program. The research training needs of the country in basic biomedical, clinical, and behavioral and social sciences are considered. Also included are the training needs of oral health, nursing, and health services research. The report has been broadly constructed to take into account the rapidly evolving national and international health care needs. The past and present are analyzed, and predictions with regard to future needs are presented.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309094275
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
This report is the twelfth assessment of the National Institutes of Health National Research Service Awards program. The research training needs of the country in basic biomedical, clinical, and behavioral and social sciences are considered. Also included are the training needs of oral health, nursing, and health services research. The report has been broadly constructed to take into account the rapidly evolving national and international health care needs. The past and present are analyzed, and predictions with regard to future needs are presented.