Politics on the Endless Frontier by Daniel Lee Kleinman PAPERBACK 9780822315988

Politics on the Endless FrontierPostwar Research Policy in the United States\nAuthor(s): Daniel Lee Kleinman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822315988, 978-0822315988\nSynopsis\nToward what end does the [url] government support science and technology? How do the legacies and institutions of the past constrain current efforts to restructure federal research policy? Not since the end of World War II have these questions been so pressing, as scientists and policymakers debate anew the desirability and purpose of a federal agenda for funding research. Probing the values that have become embodied in the postwar federal research establishment, Politics on the Endless Frontier clarifies the terms of these debates and reveals what is at stake in attempts to reorganize that establishment.\nAlthough it ended up as only one among a host of federal research policymaking agencies, the National Science Foundation was.