The dean of one of America's leading school of public affairs weighs in
on the relationship between academia and policy-making. Anderson reveals
a deep compromise that arose as the modern social sciences were born in
the nursery of late nineteenth century American liberalism: social
scientists would dedicate themselves to the pursuit of objective,
empirically verifiable truth, while relinquishing the exercise of power
to governments and their agents. She argues that this compromise helped
underwrite the expansion of American influence in the twentieth century,
and that it needs serious reexamination at the dawn of the twenty-first.