Examines budgetary cutbacks in federal data systems. Concludes that (1) justifications for cutbacks are unconvincing; (2) cutbacks have affected data availability and quality severely; (3) the feasibility of the idea that major data users should collect their own information is dubious; and (4) special evaluation studies cannot substitute for…

Public concern over adolescent sexual and contraceptive behavior is increasing. One recommended policy response is for states to pass legislation giving minors the right to consent to reproductive health services. Such services are likely to benefit individuals, families, and society. (KH)

Two questions about Koreans in business are left unanswered in this article. First, what will happen to Korean entrepreneurship if monopoly capitalism continues to extend its influence into all branches of the economy. The second question concerns the issue of race relations. (Author/AM)

Analyzes science's growing dependence upon government for funding and the government control that accompanies this growth. Focuses on the Federal government's recent efforts to limit the transfer of technology between American and Soviet scientists. (KH)

Text of an interview of Frank Reissman by Irving Louis Horowitz suggests that while social problems are experienced locally in the big cities, their cure lies nationally at the federal level. (Author/AM)

Liberals should acknowledge that there is no such thing as a perfect welfare plan and honestly discuss the problems in the welfare system. The class conflict undergirding the welfare debate will not be eliminated by liberals taking a more practical approach, but perhaps will make it easier to implement reform. (Author/ML)

Since the most salient facet of the political system is the Federal government, this study indexes political estrangement in terms of trust or cynicism toward the government in Washington. It employs national trend data rather than data restricted to a single point in time or a specific locale. (Author/AM)

The commitment on the part of the national government to provide some assistance to the elderly began in the 1930s, but in the last decade or so, this commitment has substantially increased. (Author/AM)

America's elderly are affected in very special ways by the law: some as a result of special legislation or court decisions, some deriving from the objective life-situation of certain old people, and some from the special prejudices that are visited upon the elderly. (Author)

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)

An interview by Irving Louis Horowitz conducted at Princeton University, Horowitz seminar on Social Science and Public Policy, February 11, 1976. Eli Ginzberg is a Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Columbia University and director of the Conservation of Human Resources Project, Chairman of the National Commission for Manpower Policy. (JM)

Suggests that freedom for the middle classes may mean vulnerability for the poor. The enthusiasm for sterilization may be so intense as to deprive the poor of their right not to be sterilized. (Author/AM)

Excerpts from a study made in 1954 for the U.S. Information Agency based on 142 intensive staff interviews, the objective of which was, it is stated, to identify the principles, explicit and implicit by which operating decisions are made: this was intended, it is stated, to lead to a systematic research program that would examine areas of…

This article discusses the issues surrounding community alternatives to institutional care. (Author/AM)

From the limited data, the authors are able to show that approval of incumbent performance is an important (but not sole) determinant of diffuse support for the institution. (Author/AM)