ABSTRACT
From the time of Harold Lasswell’s (1951) fi rst articulation of the policy sciences concept, the benchmark of their fi eld of inquiry was relevance to the political and social worlds. Responding directly to the questions posed by Robert Lynd’s (1939) Knowledge for What? and John Dewey’s relentless pressing of pragmatism (deLeon and Vogenbeck 2006), both its salient theories and real-world applications were at the center of the policy sciences. It was, in many ways, seen by the academic and the administrator as the ultimate culmination of the town and gown orientation.
