The State and social investigation in Britain and the United States / edited by Michael J. Lacey and Mary O. Furner.

Washington. D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

xii, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Dillons

Social investigation, social knowledge, and the state : an introduction / Michael J. Lacey and Mary O. Furner -- The science of the legislator : the Enlightenment heritage / Donald Winch -- Experts, investigators, and the state in 1860 : British social scientists through American eyes / Lawrence Goldman -- The world of the bureaus : government and the positivist project in the late nineteenth century / Michael J. Lacey -- The republican tradition and the new liberalism : social investigation, state building, and social learning in the Gilded Age / Mary O. Furner -- The state and social investigation in Britain, 1880-1914 / Roger Davidson -- Think tanks, antistatism, and democracy : the nonpartisan ideal and policy research in the United States, 1913-1987 / Donald T. Critchlow -- Social investigation and political learning in the financing of World War I / W. Elliot Brownlee

The state and social investigation in Britain between the world wars / Barry Supple -- War mobilization, institutional learning, and state building in the United States, 1917-1941 / Robert D. Cuff.

Includes bibliographic references and index