Böcker av Stephen Brooks

This collection explores the various dimensions of social scientists' participation in policy-making, with special emphasis on their roles within policy communities and their relationship to the state.

This collection of original essays focuses on the relationship of social scientists to the state and public policy in the industrialized democracies.

The contributors to this insightful and original volume argue that across the western world in general, the political expert occupies as important a role today as at any time in the past.

"This volume locates the American political system in a comparative context, allowing us to better understand its strength and weaknesses. It should be required reading for anyone wanting a basic understanding of American politics." - B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh

Many believe that we are passing through a period during which, due largely to globalization's challenge to the idea and sovereignty of nation-states, there is now the intellectual and political space for the construction of new models of citizenship, involving new relations between individuals and their governments.