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100	1		_aKING, Desmond; HANSEN, Randall _922341
245	1	0	_aExperts at Work : _bstate autonomy, social learning and eugenic sterilization in 1930s Britain
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _cApril 1999
520	3		_aOne influential strand of public policy-making theory imputes considerable autonomy to civil servants (and politicians) from social pressures; and, in Heclo's variant, conceives of policy makers as engaging in a beingn process of social learning, the results of which benefit society. In this articlewe use the campaing to enact legislation for voluntary sterilization as an example of such a process. The analysis is based on archival records of the deliberations of the Brock Committee (1932-34), established to investigate the desirability of sterilization; it demonstrates how the committee attempted to develop a stronger case for the measure than warranted by the scientific evidence. We argue that the content of the Brock Committee's deliberations conforms in broad terms to the predictions of social learning theory, but that the process was more complicated than this framework would suggest, involving a significant element of interest-group lobbying, therebyweakening the autonomy of state policy makers. Futhermore, the deliberations themselves give cause to revise the laudatory view, more or less explict in social learning theory, of policy experts' machinations
773	0	8	_tBritish Journal of Political Science _g29, 1, p. 77-107 _dCambridge : Cambridge University Press, April 1999 _xISSN 0007-1234 _w
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