ABSTRACT
In response to Irving Louis Horowitz’s remark to me that a festschrift shouldn’t be just thirty papers in search of a hard cover but should address the recipient, I am tempted to begin this paper with a Dear Irving caption. We have been dear friends, via correspondence and business dealings (Transaction Publishers and Society) for many years, and have been collegially intimate a couple of times when writing respective introductions to books. Though our careers have been conspicuously different, occasionally he reminds me of the many overlaps in perspective, aim and mood. One such intersection is on the vital significance of applied social science, “policy” being perhaps his preferred term for that conjunction. So it is to policy and Horowitz on policy that this paper is addressed.
