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Policy Sciences: The State of the Discipline
Author(s) -
Doron Gideon
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
review of policy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1541-1338
pISSN - 1541-132X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1992.tb00474.x
Subject(s) - policy sciences , field (mathematics) , state (computer science) , political science , discipline , engineering ethics , regional science , management science , sociology , social science , public administration , economics , computer science , engineering , mathematics , algorithm , pure mathematics
This overview surveys the conceptual and practical development of the policy sciences as an independent field of academic studies. It outlines the conditions that led to the emergence of this field and its expansion over the years. In addition, the article portrays the range of substantive topics and methodologies of the policy sciences. Finally, it presents the logic that guided the structure of this symposium.