Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: This informal collection is designed to further a dialogue about the relationship between communications research and policy making. In particular, it focuses on the impact of academic research on communications policy, and whether, and how, policy draws upon research (if at all). As quasi-editors (and commissioners of these essays), we have been highlighting various assumptions in the process. These assumptions mark every stage of the question (of the relevance of what academics do to what policy makers do). They mark an idealized mode of thinking about policy making — an idealized mode sometimes articulated in legislation or judicial decision (or agency practice). The assumptions include the following:
Authors: Monroe E. Price, Stefaan Verhulst
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Language: English
Subfield: General Social Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1944438726