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Michael Posner, « Social Sciences under Attack in the UK (1981-1983) », La Revue pour l’histoire du CNRS, ID : 10.4000/histoire-cnrs.547
Brief Background NotesThe Social Science Research Council (SSRC), born by Royal Charter, was created by the Science and Technology Act of 1965. It was the youngest of a family of five sibling councils, sometimes referred to as « quangos », a sardonic acronym adopted in the UK and the US by conservatives to abbreviate « quasi-autonomous nongovernmental organisations ». These organisations had the task of spending a part of the government’s science budget, the remainder of which funded governme...