Presidential science advisors perspectives and reflections on science, policy and politics
For the past 50 years a select group of scientists has provided advice to the US President, mostly out of the public eye, on issues ranging from the deployment of weapons to the launching of rockets to the moon to the use of stem cells to cure disease. The role of the presidential science adviser ca...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht ; London :
Springer
2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2010. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009456427606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Overview and Critique of Presidential Science Advising: Introduction
- Science, Politics, and Two Unicorns: An Academic Critique of Science Advice
- The Science Advisors in Their Own Words
- Science Advice in the Johnson White House
- Science, Politics and Policy in the Nixon Administration
- Science and Technology in the Carter Presidency
- Policy, Politics and Science in the White House (The Reagan Years)
- Science Advice to President Bill Clinton
- Threats to the Future of US Science and Technology
- Science Advice in the George W. Bush Administration
- A View from the Hill: Introduction
- Science Advice in the Congress?
- Science, Policy and Politics: A View from Capitol Hill (Twenty Years of Schoolin’ and They Put You on the Day Shift)
- Synthesis and Critique
- The Rise and Fall of the President’s Science Advisor.
