Communicating social science research to policymakers

the long version

This practical guide for doing policy analysis is written for researchers who either would like to have their ideas considered by public decision makers or who want to train their students in skills necessary to survive and thrive in the policy arena either as experts or as decision makers themselves. Organizing policy issues around "rules of thumb" and actual cases, the authors address these issues from all three levels of government, including quasi-governmental organizations and not-for-profits. Communicating Social Science Research to Policymakers will help professors and students better understand the "real world" of public policy and practitioners think more systematically about what they do in the policy arena.