Others included state agencies, potential clients, the public, and other law makers. Jeff's intimate knowledge of the issue, both theoretically and methodologically, put him in a critical position for communication. Every year it was something different in legislative research. For ten years Jeff worked on human services and social issues as diverse as welfare reform, gender equity, and most recently, health care reform. The sociological contributions were many and went well beyond methodology.
Information is the key and common ingredient.
With the right information you can create, control and direct policy. You see, the legislature is not itself out in the field figuring out how the world is working. Yet they have the power to set policy which influences how the world does work. This makes the work of information handlers all that more significant. The whole process must be carefully managed.