ABSTRACT
Political scientists should devote more attention to unanswered questions about how our work relates to the policy world we live in. A survey of articles published over the lifetime of the American Political Science Review found that about one in five dealt with policy prescription or criticism in the first half of the century, while only a handful did so after 1967. As journal editor Lee Sigelman observed in the centennial issue, “if speaking truth to power and contributing directly to public dialogue about the merits and demerits of various courses of action were still numbered among the functions of the profession, one would not have known it from leafing through its leading journal.”
