Introduction: The social sciences, the federal government, and the age of postmodernism / Hamilton Cravens
pt. I. The social sciences come to Washington. American social science and the invention of affirmative action, 1920s-1970s / Hamilton Cravens ; Statecraft and its retainers : American economics and public purpose after depression and war / Michael A. Bernstein
pt. II. The social sciences as process and procedure.
The science and politics of defense analysis / Harvey L. Sapolsky
A risk perceived is a risk indeed : assessing risk in biomedical research and health policy / Philip L. Frana
Progress and its discontents : postwar science and technology policy / Howard P. Segal
pt. III. Have the social sciences mattered in Washington? Environment, government, and academe : the road to NEPA, EPA, and Earth Day / Hal Rothman
Social science research and early childhood education : a historical analysis of developments in Head Start, kindergartens, and day care / Kirsten D. Nawrotski, Anna Mills Smith, Maris Vinovskis
The death of the city : cultural individualism, hyperdiversity, and the devolution of national urban policy / Zane L. Miller
The end of liberalism : narrating welfare's decline, from the Moynihan Report (1965) to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (1996) / William Graebner
