The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States

Table of Contents

Foreword Michael J. Lacey
Part I. Knowledge and Government:
1. Social investigation, social knowledge, and the state: an introduction Michael J. Lacey and Mary O. Furner
2. The science of the legislator: the Enlightenment heritage Donald Winch
Part II. Empiricism and the New Liberalism:
3. Experts, investigators, and the state in 1860: British social scientists through American eyes Lawrence Goldman
4. The world of the bureaus: government and the positivist project in the late nineteenth century Michael J. Lacey
5. The republican tradition and the new liberalism: social investigation, state building, and social learning in the gilded age Mary O. Furner
6. The state and social investigation in Britain, 1880–1914 Roger Davidson
Part III. Pluralism, Skepticism, and the Modern State:
7. Think tanks, antistatism, and democracy: the nonpartisan ideal and policy research in the United States, 1913–87 Donald T. Critchlow
8. Social investigation and political learning in the financing of World War I W. Elliot Brownlee
9. The state and social investigation in Britain between the world wars Barry Supple
10. War mobilization, institutional learning, and state building in the United States, 1917–41 Robert D. Cuff
Index.

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