Space Politics and Policy An Evolutionary Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sadeh, Eligar. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2004.
• Series: Space Regulations Library Series ; 2
• Subjects: Law.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Law of the sea.; Automotive engineering.; Industrial organization.; International economics.; Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space.; Automotive Engineering.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.; International Economics.; Industrial Organization.
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Space Politics and Policy: An Evolutionary Perspective provides a comprehensive survey of Space Policy. This book is organized around two themes. Space Policy is evolutionary in that it has responded to dramatic political events, such as the launching of Sputnik and the Cold War, and has undergone d...

Table of Contents:

• Space Policy Agenda-Setting: Historical Context
• Historical Dimensions of the Space Age
• Rationales of the Space Program
• Advocacy Coalitions and Space Policy
• Space Policy Formulation and Implementation: Policy Actors and Institutions
• Presidents and Space Policy
• Congress and Space Policy
• Bureaucracy and the Space Program
• Public Administration of the Space Program
• Space Policy Outcomes
• Space and the Environment
• Space Law
• Economics of Space
• Space Commerce
• Ethics and Off-earth Commerce
• Space Business
• International Space Cooperation
• Comparative Space Policy: The Space Policy Crisis in the American, European, and French Space Programs
• Space and the Military
• Intelligence Space Program.