Title The policy sciences; recent developments in scope and method / edited by Daniel Lerner and Harold D. Lasswell with the editorial collaboration of Harold H. Fisher [and others].

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Description	xiv, 344 pages : diagrams ; 24 cm.
Series	Hoover Institution studies. Special studies
	Hoover Institution studies.
Bibliography	Bibliography: pages 311-337.
Contents	pt. 1. Scope and focus: Policy orientation / Harold D. Lasswell -- Person: subject and object of science and policy / Ernest R. Hilgard and Daniel Lerner -- Study of the primary group / Edward A. Shils -- Study of national character / Margaret Mead -- Study of culture / Clyde Kluckhohn -- World organization and society / Harold D. Lasswell -- pt. 2. Research procedures: Probability methods in social science / Hans Reichenbach -- Mathematical models in the the social sciences / Kenneth J. Arrow -- Qualitative measurement in the social sciences: classification, typologies, and indices / Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Allen H. Barton -- Communicative patterns in task-oriented groups / Alex Bavelas -- Interviewing as a scientific procedure / Herbert Hyman -- pt. 3. Policy integration: Expectations and decisions in economic behavior / George Katona -- Sample interview survey as a tool of research and policy formation / Rensis Likert -- Psychological warfare reconsidered / Hans Speier -- Natural sciences in policy formation / Douglas M. Whitaker -- Social scientists and research policy / Robert K. Merton.
Subject	Social sciences.
	Social sciences.
	Ciencia Politica.
	Bestuurskunde.
Added Author	Lasswell, Harold D. (Harold Dwight), 1902-1978.