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Home  › Publications  › APSA Journals  › Select Free Articles from APSA Journals  › The Profession  › Policy-Relevant Scholarship Policy-Relevant Scholarship Articles from APSA Journals These archives contain selected articles for public view from the APSA journals American Political Science Review, PS: Political Science & Politics, and Perspectives on Politics. APSA journals are fully accessible online to APSA members and institutional subscribers.  For details, consult the membership pages of this site or information provided by your institution.  To view only the table of contents or abstracts from this or any of APSA's journals, please go our publisher's website: Cambridge University Press (http://journals.cambridge.org). These articles may be used for personal, non-commercial, or limited classroom use.  For permissions for all other uses of this article please contact Cambridge University Press at permissions@cup.org. "Expanding the Domain of Policy-Relevant Scholarship in the Social Sciences" William Julius Wilson (PS, Mar. 2002) Topics in the News Editorial Cartoons  Elections EU Constitution The President  Judicial Activism  The Nuclear Option - Filibusters Same-Sex Marriage  Suicide Terrorism  Tax Cuts American Elections - Index Civic Engagement   Immigration Inequality and American Democracy  International Relations   Symposium: On Nonviolence - A Force More Powerful  Post 9/11   Public Policy   Race and Ethnicity   Brown v. Board of Education   Symposium: Latino Politics in the U.S.   Women and Politics  eSymposium: Women and Politics in Comparative Perspective Symposium: The Public Value of Political Research  Evaluating Political Science Research: Information for Buyers and Sellers Strategies for Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution: Scholarship for Policymaking Strategies for Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution: Scholarship for Policymaking Government Formation and Public Policy Government Formation and Public Policy Political Science and Fundamental Research Political Science and Fundamental Research The Danger of Self-Evident Truths The Danger of Self-Evident Truths Contributions of Survey Research to Political Science Contributions of Survey Research to Political Science A Glass Half-Full? No, but Perhaps a Glass Filling: The Contributions of International Politics Research to Policy Developing Public Policy Theory: Perspectives from Empirical Research