ABSTRACT
Studies of policies for the social sciences, and of means of involving social science knowledge in policy-making, implicitly (if not explicitly) involve a prescriptive element in that they seek means of achieving better policy-making or greater utilization. In this way they deal with elements of the policy sciences, an interdiscipline that attempts to understand how policies are actually made at a variety of levels and within different cultural contexts, and through such an understanding how these policies can be improved.
