Funding Science in America
Subtitle: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780521794619
Subjects: Central government; Science funding & policy; Public Policy - General; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; General; Budgeting; Government - U.S. Government; Political Science / General; Research--Government policy--United States
First sentence: In 1983, Micheal Sovern, president of Columbia University, and William Byron, president of the Catholic University of America, independently reached the same conclusion: to finance the construction of new research facilities on their campuses, they would use their institutions' political influence in Congress to obtain federal appropriations.