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Layers of Interests, Layers of Influence: Business and the Genesis of the National Science Foundation

Daniel Lee Kleinman

Science, Technology and Human Values 19 (3):259-282 (1994)

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The discursive and operational foundations of the national nanotechnology initiative in the history of the national science foundation.Jason Gallo - 2009 - Perspectives on Science 17 (2):pp. 174-211.details The National Science Foundation's (NSF) role in, and influence on, the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) can best be understood through an examination of the NSF's history. Because of the NSF's weakened position at its founding in 1950 and obstacles faced throughout its history, the NSF developed a discursive strategy that focuses on making a causal link between support for basic science and societal benefits, and an operational strategy focused on growing its constituency through infrastructural support. The hallmarks of both of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations
The Rise and Fall of the Science Advisor to the President of the United States.Roger Pielke & Roberta Klein - 2009 - Minerva 47 (1):7-29.details The president’s science advisor was formerly established in the days following the Soviet launch of Sputnik at the height of the Cold War, creating an impression of scientists at the center of presidential power. However, since that time the role of the science advisor has been far more prosaic, with a role that might be more aptly described as a coordinator of budgets and programs, and thus more closely related to the functions of the Office of Management and Budget than (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
National Science Foundation Patronage of Social Science, 1970s and 1980s: Congressional Scrutiny, Advocacy Network, and the Prestige of Economics. [REVIEW]Tiago Mata & Tom Scheiding - 2012 - Minerva 50 (4):423-449.details Research in the social sciences received generous patronage in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Research was widely perceived as providing solutions to emerging social problems. That generosity came under increased contest in the late 1970s. Although these trends held true for all of the social sciences, this essay explores the various ways by which economists in particular reacted to and resisted the patronage cuts that were proposed in the first budgets of the Reagan administration. Economists’ response was three fold: (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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