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This edited collection examines the intersections of social control, political authority and public policy, providing an insight into the key elements needed to understand the role of governance in establishing and maintaining social control through law and public policy making.

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Charles Frankel -- The Autonomy of the Social Sciences / Charles Frankel -- The Role of Values in Social Science Research / Nicholas Rescher -- The Reward System of the Social Sciences / Jonathan R. Cole and Stephen Cole -- The Ideal of Objectivity among American Social Scientists in the Era of Professionalization, 1876-1916 / Hugh Hawkins -- Max Weber and the Roots of Academic Freedom / Robert Nisbet -- Five Decades of Public Controversy Over Mental Testing / Lee J. Cronbach

This study intends to examine the transformation of the social security system in neoliberal era in Turkey after 1980. Most of the studies argue that neoliberal transformation of economy has been led by international institutions and that social security has been commoditized in the market during the period of neoliberal restructuring. Pointing out that commoditization discourse cannot satisfactorily explain the fact, this article tries to show that the transformation of social security has some clientelistic and populist features designed to contribute to neoliberal accumulation regime in many ways. It argues that social security policy aimed at reproducing labour power, manufacturing consent of poor masses and helping privatization process of state-owned enterprises.

It has been argued that social science disciplines influence their members policy research via theoretical focus, methods, norms, and system maintenance mechanisms and that these forces inhibit the usefulness of policy research for policy‐making. Political science is found to influence substantially its members policy research output and to decrease its policy usefulness, primarily by promoting explanations of policy, although the extent of influence and lack of usefulness are less than studies of other disciplines suggest. Whereas highly useful outcome analyses are produced less frequently than many advocates of policy research would hope, a sub‐stantial body of policy research undertakes objectives that when satisfied, particularly in the area of problem definition, provide moderately useful output to decision makers. In addition, policy research output is remarkably diverse substantively, but less so in terms of the purposes it serves.

Presents a model of discipline-dominated policy research within political science. Given its tradition of inquiry, methods and norms, a constricted focus for policy research follows. (PFB)