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University Input into Government Policy Decisions: Ivory Tower at the State House

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Robert L. Christensen  and
Cleve E. Willis
Robert L. Christensen
Affiliation:
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Cleve E. Willis
Affiliation:
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Extract

The pages to follow describe an effort involving university researchers interacting with public decision-makers and agency staff to prepare recommendations on a specific issue facing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The issue is development of guidelines and procedures for using sewage sludge on land for agricultural purposes. The discussion will describe an interdisciplinary effort and an operating procedure for successful completion of a project. In the two-year process of this interaction, the authors gained more than the anticipated number of insights about modes of research and their relative chances for ultimate adoption. These insights are shared in the final section below.

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Rural Social Institutions
Information
Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , October 1978 , pp. 127 - 129
Copyright
Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

University of Massachusetts Experiment Station Paper No. 2236.

References

1 The first author chaired this task force and the second was appointed executive director of the commission.Google Scholar

2 Individuals who acquire new information on some topic tend to enthusiastic. Co-authorship of reports doesn't hurt either!Google Scholar