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Expanding the Domain of Policy-Relevant Scholarship inthe Social Sciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2002

William Julius Wilson
William Julius Wilson
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Harvard University
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Abstract

As a former President of the Consortium of Social ScienceAssociations (COSSA), I am very pleased to be a featured speaker onthe contributions of social and behavioral research to public policyand to help celebrate the Consortium's twentieth anniversary. In mytalk this afternoon, I want to address the important issue ofexpanding the domain of policy-relevant scholarship in the socialsciences.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 1 - 4
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© 2002 by the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

Portions of this lecture integrated materials from two previouspublications, William Julius Wilson, The Bridge Over theRacial Divide: Rising Inequality and CoalitionPolitics, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999;and William Julius Wilson, “Can Sociology Play a Greater Role inShaping the National Agenda?”, Sociology and the PublicAgenda, ed. William Julius Wilson, Newbury Park, CA:Sage Publications, 1993, pp.3-22.
The following address was given as part of the Consortium of SocialScience Associations' 20th Anniversary celebration inOctober, 2001. Special thanks to COSSA for allowingPS to publish the piece.