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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

Some comments on: "The problems of governments intervention in agriculture"

Market Research Seminar On Agriculture And Farmers

Catalogue: Seminar 1968: Market Research On Agriculture And Farmers

Author: David H. Pickard

May 1, 1968

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

The contribution of survey research to government policy making

In all countries Governments have become major sponsors of survey research. As an information tool the social survey designed to discover the facts in some area of government activity is now commonplace and increasingly surveys of opinion play a part...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Frank Teer

August 1, 1975

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

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

Policy uses of the New Jersey income maintenance experiment

This paper deals with a major piece of policy relevant social science research, the New Jersey Income Maintenance Experiment, and a proposed piece of social legislation, the Family Assistance Plan. An attempt is made to assess the usefulness of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Margaret E. Boeckmann

August 1, 1975

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