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The organizational ecology of science advice in America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

Jesse H. Ausubel
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Abstract

One way that the American government has changed in the past 50 years is through the establishment and expansion of organizations providing technical expertise for decisionmaking. This essay reviews the performance of current structures from the diverse vantage points of elites, bureaucracies, the general public and activist minorities, drawing on studies of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government, and the cultural theory of Mary Douglas et al. The apparently mature institutional landscape may well be ripe for change.

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Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , July 1993 , pp. 249 - 261
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Copyright © Academia Europaea 1993

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