Searching for Science Policy
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: October 10, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780765801630
Subjects: Political science & theory; Science funding & policy; Science Fiction; Public Policy - General; Political Science; Science; Science and state; Research & Methodology; Political Science / Public Policy; Congresses; Policy sciences; Social policy
Description: "The findings of scientific research often provide an important baseline to the formation of public policy. However, effective communication to the larger public about what scientists do and know is a problem inherent to all democratic societies. It is the prerogative of democratic societies to determine what kind of scientific research will be funded. Searching for Science Policy offers innovative ways of thinking about how the rhetoric and practice of science operates in various institutional contexts."--Jacket.