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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (230606)	9/1/2013 12:45:34 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542907

Please name some Democratic sponsored (social science) research that produced policy options that made it into legislative proposals--at your convenience of course. As your answer suggests, my statement had two parts--Dem support for social science research, first, and then, second, translation into policy proposals. I've already answered both parts. The answer to the second, policy proposals, at least one large instance, is pre school education. It's a non contestable assertion that some Dems have favored it for a very long time, that the early funding for it was accompanied by serious research money to assess its results, and that the policy makers took the results into account. As for the first part of that assertion, it's also not contestable. Social science research has been supported, though not as well as it should be, when Dems had control of those purse strings; Reps, by contrast, have always been critical and either reduced or fail to increase when needed.