"The State and Social Investigation contributes significantly to our understanding of the development and character of the modern state. Specifically, it makes clear the extent to which government is a producer and consumer of knowledge, operating through its own research and investigatory agencies, sponsorship of outside research, and interaction with non-government social scientists and think tanks described by Critchlow." Roy Lubove, Business History Review

• 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, 1913–87 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, 1917–41 Robert D. Cuff; Index.

"The State and Social Investigation contributes significantly to our understanding of the development and character of the modern state. Specifically, it makes clear the extent to which government is a producer and consumer of knowledge, operating through its own research and investigatory agencies, sponsorship of outside research, and interaction with non-government social scientists and think tanks described by Critchlow." Roy Lubove, Business History Review

• 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, 1913–87 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, 1917–41 Robert D. Cuff; Index.

"The State and Social Investigation contributes significantly to our understanding of the development and character of the modern state. Specifically, it makes clear the extent to which government is a producer and consumer of knowledge, operating through its own research and investigatory agencies, sponsorship of outside research, and interaction with non-government social scientists and think tanks described by Critchlow." Roy Lubove, Business History Review

• 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, 1913–87 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, 1917–41 Robert D. Cuff; Index.