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| Acknowledgment to the Second Edition | ||
| Acknowledgment to the First Edition | ||
| Introduction to the Second Edition | 1 | |
| Introduction to the First Edition: Contours of Wisdom: Presidential Science Advice in an Age of Flux | 5 | |
| President's Science Advisers and members of Science Advisory Committees | 10 | |
| Pt. 1 | Science Advisers and the Presidents They Served | |
| Science and Technology in President Clinton's First 100 Days (President Clinton) | 17 | |
| Science and Technology in the Bush Administration (President Bush) | 21 | |
| Science Advice to the President: Important and Difficult (Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Nixon) | 67 | |
| The President and His Scientific Advisers (President Eisenhower) | 73 | |
| The Origins and Uses of a Scientific Presence in the White House (President Eisenhower) | 85 | |
| Science and Technology: Government and Politics (President Kennedy) | 91 | |
| The President's Need for Science Advice: Past and Future (President Johnson) | 99 | |
| Current State of White House Science Advising (President Nixon) | 111 | |
| Science Advice: Out of and Back Into the White House (President Ford) | 119 | |
| Advising Presidents on Science and Technology (President Carter) | 135 | |
| Science and Technology in the Reagan Administration (President Reagan) | 137 | |
| Pt. 2 | Other Perspectives | |
| Science and Technology and Presidential Science and Technology Advice | 139 | |
| Reconciling the Science Advisory Role with Tensions Inherent in the Presidency | 141 | |
| The Pleasures of Advising | 159 | |
| Helping the President Manage the Federal Science and Technology Enterprise | 169 | |
| Presidential Science Advising | 177 | |
| Don't Segregate Science Advice - Integrate It! | 191 | |
| The Life, Death, and Potential Future of PSAC | 193 | |
| Federal Science Policy and Support of Autonomous Universities: A Modest Proposal | 205 | |
| Politics in the Science Advising Process | 215 | |
| Executive Leadership for Science and Technology | 227 | |
| An Historian's View of Advice to the President on Science: Retrospect and Prescription | 237 | |
| Science Advice and the Presidency: An Overview from Roosevelt to Ford | 253 | |
| A Scientist in the White House: A Sociological View | 283 | |
| Organizational Structure and Advisory Effectiveness: The Office of Science and Technology Policy | 291 | |
| Science Advice in the White House: The Genesis of the President's Science Advisers and the National Science Foundation | 307 | |
| Index of Names | 319 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Matthew Sutton
reviewed Science Advice to the President: Second Edition on July 17, 2016
Science Advice to the President: Second Edition
This book mounts a defense of 'dialogic democracy' [as opposed to delegative democracy] in which 'hybrid forums' of experts, and sundry configurations of laypeople coalesce to debate socio-technical controversies, leading to the reconfiguration of social institutions. I thought the first three chapters were the best; these focused on elucidating the relationship between the functioning of science [in its 'secluded' or 'in the wild' varieties] and civil society. The authors propose that hybrid forums be encouraged, and that these enrich democratic institutions by bringing multiple conflicting viewpoints into contact. I especially like the discussion of the 'laboratorization' of society, whereby expertise attempts to reconfigure society to mirror controlled conditions. I also liked the discussion of the relation between representation and expertise. Despite all the emphasis on fluidity and emergence, the second half of the book unselfconsciously proposes what seems like a flowchart for implementing said forums. The two major blindspots in the book seem to be any discussion of the relationship between these forums and the state, and the character of public discourse. The authors seem to accept a fairly conventional view of the state, assuming that the outcomes of hybrid forums can easily be worked back into the formal political process. An obvious way to extend and problematize their framework would be to consider situations in which hybrid forums constitute governing or steering bodies, as well. Bizarrely, Habermas receives only a brief dismissal, and there is no discussion of the many English-language replies to his work by Calhoun, Warner, Fraser, etc. This seems like a huge oversight, given that what would seem to define a hybrid forum is its heterodox nature relative to the conventions of public discourse.
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