Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- I: Is there Anybody Listening? -- II: The ESRC and the Foundations -- The Leverhulme Trust -- The Nuffield Foundation -- Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust -- Some Transatlantic Reflections -- III: Research Management in Government -- Civil Service Department -- Department of Education and Science -- Department of the Environment -- Department of Employment -- Department of Health and Social Security -- Home Office -- Department of Industry -- Lord Chancellor's Department -- Scottish Development Department -- Scottish Education Department -- IV: Interaction Between Research and Policy -- National Education Priority Area Programme -- Scottish EPA -- Legal Services in Birmingham -- Redundancies and Redeployment -- Manpower Models in the Civil Service -- Reasons for Success -- V: Disappointed Hopes -- Housing Systems Programme -- Incomes Policy and Productivity Bargaining -- A New Portrait of Social Work -- The Rise and Decline of Small Firms -- Open and Closed Prisons -- Doctor Migration and World Health -- Youth and Work: A Study of Differential Ethnic Group Experience -- VI: Three Perspectives on Research -- Perceptions of Research Workers: Do Results Get Through? -- How Research Managers See the Problems -- The Administrator's View -- VII: Research Models: Insiders, Gadflies, Limestone -- Implications for Policy Researchers -- Implications for Funders of Policy Research.