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At 3:48 PM 5/16/95, Rose D I wrote:
>...is there anything which can
>usefully be done by social scientists outside the US to try
>and influence your legislators to think again?  Both the UK
>and the European Union are travelling in the opposite direction
>and are opening up new funding opportunities for the social
>sciences

Most of our legislatures have email addresses.  Naturally, they are more
likely to attend to email from constituents.  The information about what
other nations (especially those with which we desire to remain economically
and socially competitive) are doing can provide a logic for our
legislatures other than simply another special interest group asking them
to cut someone else's funding.

If SPECIFIC details of social science support in the UK, Europe, or
elsewhere (Japan?) such as amounts of funding (per capita; percent of
government budgets, etc.), dates passed, periods, covered, goals of
funding, and so forth are posted to SOS-DATA, I'll happily use the
information in writing to MY Representative and Senators (all three of
which are supporters of social science funding, so I'm not likely to have
any direct impact on the legislative outcome).

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