Description
Foreword by Craig Calhoun
Afterword by Kenneth Prewitt
Part 1
- The Cause of Empirical Research
- Organizing Assumptions
- Changing Political Tides
Part 2
- Direction and Mandate
- Research Planning in the 1970s
- Research Planning in the 1980s
- Research Planning in the 1990s
- Area and International Studies
- International Program Reorganization
- Fellowships and Grants
- Conclusion
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Reprinting Social Science Research Council: The First Fifty Years, by Elbridge Sibley (Foreword and Afterword by Eleanor Bernert Sheldon
- Introduction
- Major Issues of Policy
- Improving Research Methods
- Some Methodological and Substantive Accomplishments
- Research Training and Support
- Foreign Area Training and Research
- The Council and the Federal Government