Overview
- Penetration of normally inaccessible processes of government
- Close-grained empirical study of government-science interaction
- New conceptualisation of key processes and relationships
- Testing theories of science and government through detailed fieldwork
- Illumination of issues of concern to current research policymakers in many systems
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 11)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The commissioning system in action
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Front Matter
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Emerging processes and roles
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Back Matter
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About this book
There has been a flare-up in interest in science policy and a key factor in this is the increased interest in analysing the role that research can play in informing policy making.
A pioneering venture in this field was Government and Research: The Rothschild Experiment in a Government Department (1983) Heinemann. No other work had penetrated the deepest recesses of government to observe at first hand the attempts of a major department to determine its research agenda through collaboration with leading scientists in a wide range of fields, to observe how research was commissioned, and then evaluated by scientific teams, and how it began to enter the policy blood streams of the departments.
This revised and augmented version updates the original text for current policy concerns and takes account of changes in science policy studies, whilst preserving its essential themes. It contains a succinct account of where matters now stand as well as an extended analysis of the themes that continue to dominate research and science policy.
Reviews
"Finally, the rest of the world has caught up with Kogan and Henkel. Twenty-five years ago their ground-breaking study of the UK's Department of Health led them to conclude that sustained interaction between scientists and bureaucrats was the key to unleashing the value of science for the policy process. I found the first edition of this book the single most compelling and comprehensive treatment of this complex interaction. They may have felt like voices in the wilderness then; today, however, they can take their rightful place as pre-cursors and leaders of what has become a mass-movement for 'evidence-based policy'. This re-issued and significantly updated edition, includes many recent initiatives that they and colleague Steve Hanney might rightfully claim as their offspring. The timeliness of the current edition only serves to highlight just how far ahead of their time they really were."
(Dr Jonathan Lomas, Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation)
"This thoughtful and thoroughly researched book was an important theoretical and practical guide for those establishing the NHS R&D Programme in the early 1990s. Some of the details of the multi-faceted relationships between science and government have necessarily changed over the years, but the complexities described in this book are still all too evident, and it remains as relevant today as it was originally."
(Bryony Soper, former Assistant Secretary in the R&D Division of the Department of Health)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Government and Research
Book Subtitle: Thirty Years of Evolution
Editors: Maurice Kogan, Mary Henkel, Steve Hanney
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4446-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4444-1Published: 10 April 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7130-9Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4446-5Published: 05 August 2006
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 248
Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Political Science, Philosophy of Science, Medicine/Public Health, general, Social Policy