Four science policy issues are discussed — intervention, interaction, interdisciplinarity, and international co-operation — in relation to how they affect the processes of making science policy, and have been shaped by them. The principal-agent model introduces to science policy the...

This postscript is a reflection on the wider implications of this discussion of interactive social science. What lessons have been learned about new knowledge, legitimacy, theory, relevance, power and evaluation? What new questions have arisen? Re-invigorated by debate about interactive...

The papers in this special issue examine the content and practice of interactive social science and its developing institutional context. Although the contemporary environment of academic research and funding is relevant, the papers engage with themes which have preoccupied social scientists for...