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Politics on the Endless Frontier - Postwar Research Policy in the United States (Paperback)
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Politics on the Endless Frontier - Postwar Research Policy in the United States (Paperback)
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Toward what end does the U.S. government support science and
technology? How do the legacies and institutions of the past
constrain current efforts to restructure federal research policy?
Not since the end of World War II have these questions been so
pressing, as scientists and policymakers debate anew the
desirability and purpose of a federal agenda for funding research.
Probing the values that have become embodied in the postwar federal
research establishment, Politics on the Endless Frontier clarifies
the terms of these debates and reveals what is at stake in attempts
to reorganize that establishment.
Although it ended up as only one among a host of federal research
policymaking agencies, the National Science Foundation was
originally conceived as central to the federal research
policymaking system. Kleinman's historical examination of the
National Science Foundation exposes the sociological and political
workings of the system, particularly the way in which a small group
of elite scientists shaped the policymaking process and defined the
foundation's structure and future. Beginning with Vannevar Bush's
1945 manifesto The Endless Frontier, Kleinman explores elite and
populist visions for a postwar research policy agency and shows how
the structure of the American state led to the establishment of a
fragmented and uncoordinated system for federal research
policymaking. His book concludes with an analysis of recent efforts
to reorient research policy and to remake federal policymaking
institutions in light of the current crisis of economic
competitiveness.
A particularly timely study, Politics on the Endless Frontier will
be of interest to historians and sociologists of science and
technology and to science policy analysts.
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