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The Comparative Survey of Freedom has been published by Freedom House since 1973. At first it was published annually, or even semianually, in the organization's bimonthly. Since 1978 it has also appeared as part of an annual volume devoted to the survey and related topics. The original intention was to produce, with relatively few manhours, an orienting discussion of variation in levels of freedom. Presents a numerical table of political rights and civil liberties. (SJK)

Graphical representation of the dynamic interactions among the elements of a system has found wide application in business, government, & the "system sciences." Although system representation is now ad hoc, it may be possible to develop a standard theoretical presentation in terms of the interaction & feedback of biological, biosocial, cultural, & situational determinants of behavior. The resulting framework must, of course, be modified for each problem addressed, yet the framework forces the analysis to be dynamic as well as static, to avoid overemphasis on factors of interest to a particular investigator, & to show more precisely the effect of adopting alternative social theories. Examining the applicability of this proposed framework to a variety of problems suggests that this approach will assist in the transfer of information between applied & theoretical studies & in the cumulation of social science knowledge. 1 Table, 8 Figures. AA.

Personal experience suggests that it is a great oversimplification to assume that those analysts or sci'ts who work on gov sponsored contracts are forced by their personal econ & power interests to make their work conform to the ideology of the military-industr establishment. The belief is expressed here that many enter gov sponsored res programs in order to influence the more hard-line militarists with liberal-minded ideals. The SofK on which this self-interest assumption lies must be supplemented by a culturology of knowledge. In terms of the latter, an important obstacle to good policy analysis for gov comes from the fact that most analysts are heavily influenced by a rather narrow academic & intellectual subculture that makes it difficult for them to understand with sufficient balance the problems that face decisionmakers in the real world. Modified HA.