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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202303012
• ISBN13: 9780202303017
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.5"