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"Advocacy Research" versus "Management Review"

"Advocacy Research" versus "Management Review" "Advocacy Research" versus "Management Review" "Nader's Raiders" and G.A.O. on Community Mental Health Centers KAROLYNN SIEGEL and PAMELA DOTY Center for Policy Research, New York, U.S.A. Introductioni POLICY RESEARCH is relatively newly differentiated as a distinctive enterprise, with purposes differing from those of both pure and applied social science research. As such, policy researchers are rather in the position of scien- tific innovators who must invent, test, and learn the strengths and limitations of their procedural tools as they use them to achieve substantive purposes. Charac- teristic policy research methodologies are gradually evolving. In this paper, we endeavor to provide a comparative analysis of studies representing two such methodological types. The purpose of the comparison is to abstract from the concrete uses the analytic attributes of each method, and to suggest how these attributes affected the findings and policy conclusions that resulted from the research. Thoroughgoing policy analysis of an existing social policy or program en- compasses several layers of perspective: are its purposes suitable from the view- point of "higher" value assumptions? (e.g., does Affirmative Action induce social justice?); are the various purposes mutually compatible or contradictory? (e.g., can one increase quality of care, reduce costs, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) Brill

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Brill
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© 1978 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0020-7152
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1745-2554
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10.1163/156854278X00220
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"Advocacy Research" versus "Management Review" "Nader's Raiders" and G.A.O. on Community Mental Health Centers KAROLYNN SIEGEL and PAMELA DOTY Center for Policy Research, New York, U.S.A. Introductioni POLICY RESEARCH is relatively newly differentiated as a distinctive enterprise, with purposes differing from those of both pure and applied social science research. As such, policy researchers are rather in the position of scien- tific innovators who must invent, test, and learn the strengths and limitations of their procedural tools as they use them to achieve substantive purposes. Charac- teristic policy research methodologies are gradually evolving. In this paper, we endeavor to provide a comparative analysis of studies representing two such methodological types. The purpose of the comparison is to abstract from the concrete uses the analytic attributes of each method, and to suggest how these attributes affected the findings and policy conclusions that resulted from the research. Thoroughgoing policy analysis of an existing social policy or program en- compasses several layers of perspective: are its purposes suitable from the view- point of "higher" value assumptions? (e.g., does Affirmative Action induce social justice?); are the various purposes mutually compatible or contradictory? (e.g., can one increase quality of care, reduce costs, and

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International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1978

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