Funding Science in America - Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel

Klappentext Explores the pros and cons of the academic earmarking issue. Zusammenfassung Funding Science in America! first published in 1999! is about the controversial issue of how the federal government funds university research for science. Savage explores both the pros and cons of the funding system of academic earmarking and explains how and why this issue has caused a rift in the nation's science community. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The politics of academic earmarking; 2. The incentives to earmark; 3. AAU and the fight against earmarking; 4. The struggle to fund academic research facilities; 5. Lobbyists, lobbying, and the pursuit of academic earmarks; 6. Congress and the distribution of academic earmarks; 7. Congress, and the president, and the fight against earmarking; 8. The future of academic earmarking; Notes; Selected bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: David Savage, James D Savage, James D. Savage, James D. (University of Virginia) Savage, Savage James D.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.04.1999
• EAN: 9780521643153
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64315-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government, Scientific research, Science Funding & Policy, Science funding and policy