The Politics of Social Science in Regulatory Law

这项研究计划拨款将用于扩展先前在监管机构决策过程中使用社会科学推理的工作，将EEOC和EPA的数据添加到现有数据库中。规划活动包括发展一个计算机化数据库，发展一个抽样框架，以及发展一个文件和深入访谈数据的编码方案。从这些规划活动中产生的研究建议将概述一项关于社会科学经验如何纳入监管法律某些领域的研究。这项研究反过来将有助于我们理解监管机构做出决策的方式。

This Research Planning Grant will be used to extend previous work on the use of social science reasoning in decision making processes in regulatory agencies by adding data for the EEOC and the EPA to an existing data base. The planning activities include developing a computerized data base, the development of a sampling frame, and the development of a coding scheme for documentary and in-depth interview data. The research proposal resulting from these planning activites will outline a study of the ways in which social science expertices is incorporated into some areas of regulatory law. This study in turn will contribute to our understanding of the ways in which regulatory agencies make decisions.