ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on organizational matters: specifically, the connection of how both policy-oriented research and basic social science requirements could be helped by new agencies and improved financial arrangements. We should encourage Congress to stimulate among the various policy and non-policy-making agencies alike a desire to use basic social science research findings and originate social science projects within legislative and executive agencies. The various agencies of government tend to be the keepers of secrecy. Our Congress is uniquely qualified to be the keeper of science. We will not go into any prolonged examination of the latent and manifest contradictions between scientific inquiry and secret and selective uses of data. Involved in the present situation is the world of contracts that link the academic social scientists to political policy roles. Grants represent research in which the originating impulse comes from the individual scholar, whereas contract work is initiated through the efforts of the federal sponsoring agency.
