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Research and politics in Amsterdam

I wish to discuss the way in which we in Amsterdam brought about a peaceful coexistence of information and policymaking. It may strike you that the essence of my arguments will be information and not research. The problems touch a much wider area...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Author: Hans Oosterbaan

June 15, 1982

The consumer and the policy-maker

The first study discussed was undertaken by Consumers' Association (CA) on behalf of the Environment and Consumer Protection Service of the EEC. This was essentially a small-scale methodological exercise, CA's brief being to recommend to the EEC a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Authors: Michael Warren, David Yelding, Antony Keith

June 15, 1982

Social change and its implications for policy-making in France

I want to dwell here, focusing on the case of France and drawing upon observational data accumulated by the 3 SC system (COFREMCA System for Monitoring Socio-Cultural Change). I shall begin by attempting to describe, in very broad terms, recent...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Social Change Analysis As A Tool For Strategic Planning And Decision Making

Author: Alain de Vulpian

Company: RISC S.A.

June 18, 1980

Research on employment policy in the United States and Europe

This paper concentrates on one particular area, that of employment policy research. With unemployment in Europe, and in the United States, now at between 5 and 6% of the labour force, measures to combat the economic and social scourge of unemployment...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1979: It Won't Work Here

Author: Andrew Robert McIntosh

March 1, 1979

Consumer representation in government regulation

In the U.S. the Federal government is now participating more actively in marketing activities. It does so to reflect consumer interests and protect consumer welfare. Decisions reached by government regulators have far reaching effect on such...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1979: It Won't Work Here

Authors: William Lazer, Priscilla La Barbera

March 1, 1979

Public views and social policy

Social research can be seen as one way of establishing a closer link between public views and the decisions of policy makers. Its main advantage over other kinds of public participation in policy formulation is its ability to reflect a more...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Social Research in the Public Sector

Authors: Tim S. Bowles, Pamela Mills

December 1, 1978

Evaluation for democracy

Despite the recent rapid growth in applied social science, the results of that collaboration between research and policy-making have been disappointing (e.g. the American War on Poverty). Two British examples of national action-research experiments...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Social Research in the Public Sector

Authors: Tony F. Marshall, Suzan M. Fairhead, D. J.I. Murphy, S. C. Iles

December 1, 1978

Predicting social change

This paper covers the role of the survey researcher as a social forecaster. Social indicators have been derived from a qualitative and quantitative survey research system now operating in 14 different countries. These indicators include self...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Social Research in the Public Sector

Author: Elizabeth H. Nelson

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

December 1, 1978

Strategies of increasing carpooling behavior among urban commuters

This paper represents an application of a theory of social change to the area of increasing carpooling (ride-sharing) behavior among urban commuters. The paper at first briefly describes alternative strategies of changing social behavior as proposed...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Social Research

Authors: Jagdish N. Sheth, Abraham D. Horowitz

December 1, 1977