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Questions concerning relations of social scientific discourse and public policy have been myriad and complex. Studies of the role of social scientific research in policymaking have focused on relationships of knowledge and power,2 the ways in which social scientists have gained access to policy communities,3 and histories of national conditions that have created demands for social scientific research in the policy process.4 Within the interdisciplinary rhetoric of inquiry movement that has arisen from the "linguistic turn" in social scientific and humanistic research, social scientists have been studied as advocates in the political process along with politicians, bureaucrats, media figures, interest groups, and other participants in public policy debates.5 Economists have contributed to public policy longer and in greater numbers than many of their colleagues in other disciplines. D. N. McCloskey's studies of the rhetoric of economics have demonstrated how economic theorists fuse fact and |
