INSTITUTIONAL GROWTH OF POLICY SCIENCES.

The article focuses on institutional growth of policy sciences. Policy Sciences is quite a broad field. Systems analysis applications of operations research and management sciences to policy issues, planning, systems engineering, social indicators and social problem mapping, parts of public administration and organization theory, parts of political science, all these and other disciplines are closely related with policy sciences. This paper is regarded as a preliminary survey, which identifies only some of the relevant activities particularly in the United States.