| Scrutinising Science: The Changing UK Government of Science 2004 Edition Contributor(s): Boden, R. (Author), Cox, D. (Author), Nedeva, M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333749693 ISBN-13: 9780333749692 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2003 Annotation: British science has undergone radical transformation during the past 20 years. This is less a result of scientific discoveries per se, but rather the structure of funding and institutions. Science used to occupy a discrete socio-economic space. Scientists enjoyed the privileges of status and funding in return for the generation of knowledge. This knowledge is now regarded as a commodified product or a set of commercialized relationships. This book aims to explain the transformation of science in the UK public sector through detailed analysis of the main Government Research establishments since 1979. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - General - Science | Research & Methodology - Political Science | World - European |
| Dewey: 507.204 |
| LCCN: 2003054919 |
| Series: Transforming Government |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.52" W x 8.8" (0.85 lbs) 209 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: By the 1980s, UK government research laboratories were an often quirky but always essential part of the state sector. In one of the most radical experiments in the organization and management of scientific research attempted in the UK, successive Conservative governments sought to reform these laboratories by applying the market-based solution of 'New Public Management'. Scrutinising Science explores and critiques that reform process by examining the laboratories' new organizational forms, the new visions of what science is for implicit in the reform agenda and the new forms of scientific knowledge production that have arisen as a consequence. |