Presidential Science Advisors Perspectives and Reflections on Science, Policy and Politics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pielke, Roger. (Editor), Klein, Roberta A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Science > History.; Science > Philosophy.; Political science > Philosophy.; History.; Science, general.; History of Science.; Political Philosophy.; Political Science, general.; Philosophy of Science.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3898-2

For the past 50 years a select group of scientists has provided advice to the US President, mostly out of the public eye, on issues ranging from the deployment of weapons to the launching of rockets to the moon to the use of stem cells to cure disease. The role of the presidential science adviser ca...

Table of Contents:

• 1. 1. Introduction and acknowledgements
• Part I  Overview of Presidential Science Advising
• 2. The Rise and Fall of the Presidents Science Advisor
• Part II  The Science Advisors In Their Own Words
• 3. Science Advice in the Johnson White House
• 4. Science, Politics and Policy in the Nixon Administration
• 5. Science and Technology in the Carter Presidency
• 6. Policy, Politics and Science in the White House
• The Reagan Years
• 7. Science Advice to President Bill Clinton
• 8. Threats to the Future of U.S. Science and Technology
• 9. Science Advice in the George W. Bush Administration
• Part III  A View From The Hill
• Introduction
• 10. Science, Policy and Politics: A View from Capitol Hill
• 11. Science Advice in the Congress?- Part IV  Critique
• 12. Science, Politics, and Two Unicorns: An Academic Critique of Science Advice Appendix.