James D. Savage, David Savage

Funding Science in America

Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the pros and cons of the academic earmarking issue.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780521643153
• ISBN-10: 0521643155
• Artikelnr.: 21496993

Inhaltsangabe

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.