Research utilization in policymaking: A tale of two series (of social experiments)

David Greenberg and Marvin B. Mandell
Additional contact information
Marvin B. Mandell: Associate Professor in the Policy Sciences Graduate Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Postal: Associate Professor in the Policy Sciences Graduate Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1991, vol. 10, issue 4, 633-656

Abstract: This paper is an exploratory attempt to view the role that social experiments in general, and the income maintenance experiments and work|welfare demonstrations in particular, have played in the policy process through the lens provided by the knowledge utilization literature. In addition to suggesting that the decision to conduct a social experiment is rarely, if ever, made according to an essentially rational paradigm, this framework helps highlight the range of uses to which findings from social experiments can be put and the circumstances under which various types of uses are more or less likely. Specifically, the knowledge utilization literature suggests that rather than having the dramatic, decisive effects on policy choices that their promoters have often envisioned, social experiments are more likely to affect policy in a variety of subtle ways.

Date: 1991
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (9)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.2307/3324989 Link to full text; subscription required (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wly:jpamgt:v:10:y:1991:i:4:p:633-656

DOI: 10.2307/3324989

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management from John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().