Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Lisa Anderson
The conditions that shaped the rise and expansion of American social science are rapidly changing, and with them, the terms of its relationship with power and policy. As globalization has diminished the role of the state as the locus of public policy in favor of NGOs, multinational corporations and other private entities, it has raised important questions about the future of the social sciences and their universalist pretensions.
As dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, Lisa Anderson has a unique vantage point on the intersection of social sciences, particularly political science, and public-policy formation and implementation. How do, or should, the research and findings of the academy affect foreign or domestic policy today? Why are politicians often quick to dismiss professors as irrelevant, their undertakings purely "academic", while scholars often shrink from engagement as agents of social or political change? There is a tension at work here, and it reveals a deeper compromise that arose as the modern social sciences were born in the nursery of late nineteenth century American liberalism: social scientists would dedicate themselves to the pursuit of objective, empirically verifiable truth, while relinquishing the exercise of power to governments and their agents. Anderson argues that this compromise helped underwrite the expansion of American influence in the twentieth century, and that it needs serious reexamination at the dawn of the twenty-first.
Table of Contents:
| 1 | Introduction : understanding, intervention and the common good | 1 |
| 2 | A science of politics : the American history of scientific policy and policymaking | 7 |
| 3 | A marketplace of ideas : social science and public policy beyond government | 41 |
| 4 | Wars and webs : global public policy and international social science | 75 |
| 5 | Concluding thoughts : social science, policymaking, and the common good in the twenty-first century | 103 |
New interesting book: Théorie Éthique et Affaires
Managing Human Resources
Author: Luis R R Gomez Mejia
The Managerial Perspective, a new introduction for every chapter, focuses on the managerial perspective and summarizes why the material is relevant to managers.
Managerial Skill Builder: Issues and Exercises, an end-of-chapter feature, presents a managerial situation relevant to each chapter topic and concludes with questions, issues, exercises, and group projects.
Manager's Notebook, located in every chapter, illustrates procedures, tips, and strategies you can really use in management.
You Manager It! Discussion Cases, found at the end of every chapter, focus on human resources issues from a manager's perspective and encourage you to think critically.
Technology and its influence on human resources information is addressed in every chapter.
Globalization and its effect on human resources practices is discussed throughout the book, and the authors address the unique human resources problems faced by multinational organizations.
The authors and Prentice Hall are committed to providing a unique learning and teaching package to accompany this third edition. New to this edition:
Skills Live! Videos offer dramatizations that highlight a human resources skill related to each part of the text. These videos allow students the opportunity to see what it's like to conduct an interview, give performance appraisals, deal with sexual harassment issues, and more.
PHLIP/CW Web Site provides full academic support for both professors and students. Instructors can find answers to current events and Web exercises, download ancillary materials, and more. For students, there is anon-line study guide, current events articles and exercises, Web exercises, and more.
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Consisting of 16 chapters, divided into six parts, this text provides an overview of emerging challenges in the strategic management of human resources (HR); the contexts in which HRM takes place; staffing issues; human resources development; compensation issues; and workplace governance and the employer-employee relationship. This edition (last, 1995) emphasizes practicalities, with new material in every chapter on concrete skills-building, as well as the results of new research, new graphics, and computer-based HRM simulations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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New edition of a text that illustrates the role and impact of technology on globalization, compensation, legal, safety, and health issues. G<'o>mez-Mej<'i>a and Robert L. Cardy (both of Arizona State U.) and David B. Balkin (U. of Colorado) discuss present and emerging strategic human resource challenges, the contexts of human resource management, staffing, employee development, compensation, and governance. The 17 chapters include features such as the managerial perspective, issues and exercises, procedures and tips, discussion cases, the influence of technology, and the effect of globalization. Contains many color illustrations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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