Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity of Reseach (Hardcover)
David H Guston; Guston David H
Cambridge University Press
9780521653183
0-521-65318-5
Combining political-economic, sociological, and historical approaches, Professor Guston provides a coherent new framework for analyzing the changing relationship between politics and science in the United.
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States. After World War II, the "social contract for science" assumed that the integrity and productivity of research were automatic; a belief that endured for four decades. But in the 1980s, cases of misconduct in science and flagging economic performance broke the trust between politics and science. New "boundary organizations" were created to mend the relationship between scientists and politicians.
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