Abstract
As policy researchers increasingly see the politicization of the use of analysis as inevitable they have called for changes in the conduct of analysis and in the analyst's role in order to promote utilization and its supposed benefits. The basic prescription is to shape analysis to serve both the political and information needs of specific decision makers or policy participants or to become partisan analysts. In accepting this approach the professional norm of disinterested inquiry is compromised without much knowledge of the consequences. Pressing theoretical, normative, and pracical issues should at least be addressed before the analytic community abandons the ideal of disinterestedness and adopts a partisan analytic stance.
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