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This book combines political-economic, sociological and historical approaches to provide a coherent framework for analysing the changing relationship between politics and science in the United States. Fundamental to this relationship are problems of delegation, especially the integrity and productivity of sponsored research: politicians must see that research is conducted with integrity and productivity, and scientists must be able to show it. A science policy regime changes when solutions to these problems change. After World War II, the 'social contract for science' assumed that the integrity and productivity of research were automatic and, despite many challenges, that contract endured for four decades. However in the 1980s, as rich empirical studies show, cases of misconduct in science and flagging economic performance broke the trust between politics and science. New 'boundary organizations', in which scientists and nonscientists collaborate to assure the integrity and productivity of research, were created to mend the relationship
In: Review of policy research, Volume 30, Issue 5, p. 439-446
ISSN: 1541-1338
In: Science and public policy: journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Volume 30, Issue 5, p. 347-357
ISSN: 1471-5430
In: Futures: the journal of policy, planning and futures studies, Volume 34, Issue 2, p. 197-199
ISSN: 0016-3287
In: Science, technology, & human values: ST&HV, Volume 26, Issue 4, p. 399-408
ISSN: 1552-8251
In: Science, technology, & human values: ST&HV, Volume 24, Issue 4, p. 451-482
ISSN: 1552-8251
Consensus conferences, also known as citizens' panels—a collection of lay citizens akin to a jury but charged with deliberating on policy issues with a high technical content—are a potentially important way to conduct technology assessments, inform policy makers about public views of new technologies, and improve public understanding of and participation in technological decision making. The first citizens' panel in the United States occurred in April 1997 on the issue of "Telecommunications and the Future of Democracy." This article evaluates the impact of this citizens' panel. The standard criteria to evaluate the impact of analyses focus on the "actual impact" and on the "impact on general thinking." To these standard criteria, this article introduces the evaluation of two impacts related to learning: impact on the training of knowledgeable personnel and the interaction with lay knowledge. The impact evaluation is based on a nearly comprehensive set of semistructured telephone interviews with the participants in the panel.
In: Policy sciences: integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity ; the journal of the Society of Policy Scientists, Volume 30, Issue 4, p. 233-256
ISSN: 0032-2687
In: Policy studies journal: an international journal of public policy, Volume 25, p. 451-469
ISSN: 0190-292X
Examines how state legislatures acquire and use technical information and analysis; suggests ways to improve legislatures' relationships with a broader variety of sources, and finds a need to educate legislators as consumers of technical information; US.
In: Policy sciences: integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity ; the journal of the Society of Policy Scientists, Volume 30, p. 233-255
ISSN: 0032-2687
Expands on the argument that science and technology policy analysis (SPTA) cannot achieve great utility for practitioners or cumulative progress for scholars, because the field lacks a critical tradition; focuses on Science, the endless frontier (STEF), a new framework for appraising the quality and impact of any work of STPA; since 1960, chiefly; US.
In: Policy studies journal: an international journal of public policy, Volume 25, Issue 3, p. 407-411
ISSN: 0190-292X
In: Science & public policy: SPP ; journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Volume 23, Issue 4, p. 229-240
ISSN: 0302-3427, 0036-8245
In: Democratization of Expertise?; Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, p. 63-79
In: Science and public policy: journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Volume 30, Issue 5, p. 302-308
ISSN: 1471-5430