Ideology and Policy Research

Ideology and policy research are intertwined in many ways; an example is Murray's Losing Ground which uses "science" to justify racial, sexual, and class discrimination. Murray is utterly faithful to the neoconservative version of how liberalism went wrong in the 1960s. He says an intellectual elite shifted the blame for poverty, crime and low achievement to "the system" destroying individual responsibility. But his argument is not supported by evidence. Data are bent tofit foregone conclusions. He argues that more people are becoming dependent on government support, but his method of counting who receives assistance is a fiction. Nevertheless his argument has wide appeal among Americans. Why? His argument touches the self-interested Social Darwinist in almost all of us

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• Envisioning Dependency

  Joya Misra, Stephanie Moller et al.•Social Problems•2003

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• Rethinking the War on Poverty

  Open Access•Edward J Harpham, Richard K Scotch•The Western Political Quarterly•1988

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• Losing ground

  Charles A Murray•Losing ground•1984

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• Affirmative discrimination

  Open Access•Dan Landis•International Journal of…•1977

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• The Neoconservatives

  Alfred Bloom•Telos•1979

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• On the Democratic Idea in America

  Gordon Lloyd, Irving Kristol•The Western Political Quarterly•1973

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• Post-Conservative America

  Gaddis Smith, Kevin P Phillips•Foreign Affairs•1982

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