Concludes that the real challenge to social scientists in this administration, and any other, is not how to relate effectively and get more funds from the executive branch, but how to relate more effectively as teachers and learners in the political process--with the American people and their elected representatives in Congress. (Author/JM)

Predicts that the Carter administration will differ from the Ford one chiefly by resumption of a quasi-populist program of governmental initiative along fairly standard or at least predictable lines: health insurance improvements, more outlays on health research, welfare scheme modification, and more support for general education. There is little…

Argues that with the presidential elections of 1976 now history, the electorate may hope for greater support to those people who see social problems as public issues rather than psychological dilemmas in search of biomedical remedies. No one close to social science and related to government could fail to detect in the last decade a powerful drift…

Notes and predicts persistence in the nature of the links between social scientists and the polity, and speculates that we may also be on the threshold of basic alterations in, or at least challenges to, these traditional arrangements. This prognosis is essentially hopeful for those of us who are social scientists and socialists. At issue is how…

Argues that as important as what the Carter administration will do is what the Carter victory has already done: it decisively ended the Nixon era in American society. The Carter administration will attempt to synthesize the striving for excellence of the Nixon era and the push for participation of the King era. (Author/JM)