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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Foreword -- Preface -- The Author -- 1. Experiment in the Application of Survey Research -- 2. Continuous National Survey: Structure and Analysis -- 3. Development and Funding of the Survey Experiment -- 4. Planning and Conducting the Project -- 5. Assessing the Survey Experiment -- 6. Utilization of the Survey Information -- 7. Future of Survey Research for Meeting National Needs -- Appendix A: Questionnaires -- Appendix B: Basic Coding Sheet and Summary Tables -- Appendix C: Agency Memos, I -- Appendix D: Agency Memos, II -- References -- Index

Knowledge in society / Robert F. Rich -- Knowledge creation: an overview / Stephen D. Nelson --Three coigns on diffusion research / Irwin Feller -- If dissemination is the solution, what is the problem? / Jack Knott and Aaron Wildavsky -- Knowledge utilization: current issues / Judith K. Larsen -- Linkages between knowledge creation, diffusion, and utilization / Carole Ganz

This article provides an assessment of the fields of knowledge creation, diffusion, and utilization from the perspective of the founding editor of this journal. Where are researchers in the development of this area of inquiry? What are some of the critical agenda items for the future ? The article argues that the field faces the following issues: a crisis of legitimacy, a lack of theory development, problems in measurement of the phenomena being explored, and stalled develop ment in terms of posing challenging questions. The article concludes that there is an open agenda in the fields of knowledge creation, diffusion, and utilization. Once some closure is reached on the measurement issues, then it should be possible to advance a systematic theory of knowledge production and utilization. Unfortunately, the field has not been characterized by studies that consciously build other. Instead, the "wheel" has been reinvented on many different occasions.

Writing this article for a special issue of Knowledge honoring Howie Davis has been a bittersweet experience Sweet because of how much I learn each time I read Howie's work. Bitter because of the fact that he is no longer here to contribute to the many endeavors of which he was apart He was a strong supporter of this journal from the time it was first conceived of. Howie Davis was very important to me from the time that I finished graduate school. He was committed and enthusiastic about the work I was doing in knowledge utilization and mental health policy. He influenced the questions I asked and he helped in shaping the analysis of the data that were analyzed. Howie was also a good friend; we had many stimulating discussions about the work we were doing. I have enjoyed grappling with his ideas .

This article examines the development of mental health policy in the United States from 1945 to 1985. The mental health system has experienced two major transformations during this period. Data from interviews and records are used to analyze the impact of these changes on the development of policy and on delivery of services at the federal, state, and local levels of government.