Science Policy Confrontation

a Messy confrontation of a crisis in agricultural science

january 16, 2010 vol xlv no 3 EPW Economic & Political Weekly 66 Shelley Feldman ([email protected]) is a sociologist associated with both Cornell University and Binghamton University, United States; Stephen Biggs ([email protected]) is at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK; and Rajeswari Raina (rajeswari_raina@ yahoo.com) is with the Centre for Policy Research, New...

Informing policy with science.

e recently witnessed the peaceful—if controversial—transition of the United States presidency. As with any major change in federal government, the scientific community has concerns about new directions and priorities that may affect the way science is conducted, funded, and used in the United States and elsewhere. Of particular note with this new administration are concerns that President Trump...

Demography as social science and policy science

History of science and American science policy.

Historians of science have participated actively in debates over American science policy in the post-World War II period in a variety of ways, but their impact has been more to elucidate general concepts than to effect specific policy changes. Personal experiences, in the case of the debate over global warming, have demonstrated both the value and the limits of such involvement for the making o...

As Science Evolves, How Can Science Policy?

Getting science policy right is a core objective of government that bears on scientific advance, economic growth, health, and longevity. Yet the process of science is changing. As science advances and knowledge accumulates, ensuing generations of innovators spend longer in training and become more narrowly expert, shifting key innovations (i) later in the life cycle and (ii) from solo researche...