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The Psychologist Incorporating The Bulletin of The British Psychological Society Vol. 2 No. 11 November 1989 Published by Features The British Psychological Society, Democracy, Bureaucracy and the Psychologist St Andrews House, John Raven explains why psychology should replace economics 456 48, Princess Road East, in policy development Leicester LE 1 ?DR. Psychological Safety in Student-centred Learning Telephone: 0533-549568. • Beatrice Heywood-Taylor looks at the relationship between stu­ 473 ~"---------~ dent and teacher Managin~ Editor: Reminiscences of a Wartime Army Psychologist Elizabeth apston~-~ Edgar Anstey reflects on his experiences 475 -------~~. Honorary Editors: Glynis Breakwell, Academic Department of Psychology, A Critique of the Evaluation of the "Child Development University of Surrey, Programme" (Barker and Anderson 1966) Guildford, Jim Stevenson 460 Surrey GU2 5XH. 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The extent of these changes is not generally recognised. In all EEC coun· economics as the key discipline tries, approximately 45 per cent of GNP is spent directly by governments. This does not include local authority expendi­ in poiicy development ture or expenditure by the nationalised industries. When this is added on, the Public servants and politicians should be gulclecl by psychological figure comes to some 65 per cent. This still does not include the effects of legis· considerations, rather than economic ones, John Raven argues. Only lation requiring firms to install such when the Insights available through psychological research are things as safety and pollution-control applied to public policy can we ensure that public servants and equipment or motorists to insure their politicians act in the public Interest. cars. Nor does it include grant and levy legislation which is designed to ensure that people spend much of their "own" n writing the best case for social re­ the past 40 years, dramatic changes money in ways deemed appropriate by search that has ever been published, have come about in the way in which government. When these are added, IRothschild (1982) argued that social society is organised. We now live in the total comes to some 75 per cent. scientists had not laid claim to the major what is essentially a managed world One can argue about the figure of 75 role