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657 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2015)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0657 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL
A Note from
the Executive
Editor

Public policy that advances the common
good should be informed by evidence and
by the best possible scientific analyses. For well
over a century, The American Academy of
Political and Social Science (AAPSS) has taken
that proposition as axiomatic, commissioning
and encouraging academic work that addresses
our most pressing social concerns. Much of that
work has been published through the years in
The ANNALS. Sound analysis, though, can get
short shrift in public discourse and in political
debate, sometimes because policy-makers are
unaware of its existence or persuaded by other
concerns, and often because academics are
unable to convey their findings in ways that are
sufficient to compel political action.
With the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize, the
AAPSS recognizes individuals who are champi-
ons of social science in the public realm-
women    and  men   whose  careers have
demonstrated how social research can make
our public policies more effective and our poli-
tics better. In 2013, we asked the winner of that
year's Prize-William Julius Wilson-to deliver
a major public policy address in Washington,
D.C. in conjunction with the award, thereby
inaugurating the Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Lecture on Social Science and Public Policy.
This practice continued in 2014, with Moynihan
Prize recipient Joseph Stiglitz giving a talk on
the campus of the George Washington
University. We asked him to prepare a written
version of that address for publication in this
volume of The ANNALS, which he was kind
enough to do.
-Thomas A. Kecskemethy
DOI: 10.1177/0002716214552959

ANNALS, AAPSS, 657, January 2015

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