Citation

Tussing AD. Eval. Program Plann. 1988; 11(2): 161-167.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0149-7189(88)90008-0

PMID

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Abstract

Drawing on the author's experiences as an American social scientist working in Ireland on policy-oriented research relating to education and health, the paper discusses differences between such research in Ireland and the USA. In general, differences are due to the small size of the country; its lower level of economic development; the lack of a developed literature in the fields in which the author worked; the lack of published data; and cultural differences affecting scholarship, such as the lower level of competitiveness in human relations. In addition, policy-oriented social science research gets considerable media attention in Ireland. The very considerable attention given the author's work astonished him. The author illustrates the points made with accounts of his own experiences.