The State and social investigation in Britain and the United States

Foreword Michael J. Lacey Part I. Knowledge and Government: 1. Social investigation, social knowledge, and the state: an introduction Michael J. Lacey and Mary O. Furner 2. The science of the legislator: the Enlightenment heritage Donald Winch Part II. Empiricism and the New Liberalism: 3. Experts, investigators, and the state in 1860: British social scientists through American eyes Lawrence Goldman 4. The world of the bureaus: government and the positivist project in the late nineteenth century Michael J. Lacey 5. The republican tradition and the new liberalism: social investigation, state building, and social learning in the gilded age Mary O. Furner 6. The state and social investigation in Britain, 1880-1914 Roger Davidson Part III. Pluralism, Skepticism, and the Modern State: 7. Think tanks, antistatism, and democracy: the nonpartisan ideal and policy research in the United States, 1913-1987 Donald T. Critchlow 8. Social investigation and political learning in the financing of World War I W. Elliot Brownlee 9. The state and social investigation in Britain between the world wars Barry Supple 10. War mobilization, institutional learning, and state building in the United States, 1917-1941 Robert D. Cuff Index.