Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences

By Paul Diesing

Book Overview

The purpose of this book is to examine how ideology operates - in the sense of influencing the conduct of inquiry - in the policy sciences, defined as economics, political science, and sociology. In it, Diesing critically explores all the major schools of policy-related social thought from 1930 to 1975. Richard Hartwig, in his new introduction, notes, 'In 1982, Diesing published a remarkable book entitled Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences. It] was the best book I had read in a decade, and it related directly to all the policy sciences.... I consider this to be the most brilliant of Diesing's books. Like all of Diesing's works, it remains highly relevant today.'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202308154
• ISBN13: 9780202308159
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 8.9"