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Author:   David Kaldewey ,  Désirée Schauz
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   4
ISBN:  

9781785338106

ISBN 10:   1785338102
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   25 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Why Do Concepts Matter in Science Policy? Desiree Schauz and David Kaldewey PART I: GENEALOGIES OF SCIENCE POLICY DISCOURSES Chapter 1. Categorizing Science in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain Robert Bud Chapter 2. Professional Devotion, National Needs, Fascist Claims, and Democratic Virtues: The Language of Science Policy in Germany Desiree Schauz and Gregor Lax Chapter 3. Transforming Pure Science into Basic Research: The Language of Science Policy in the United States David Kaldewey and Desiree Schauz PART II: CONCEPTUAL SYNCHRONIZATION AND CULTURAL VARIATION Chapter 4. Fundamental Research and New Scientific Arrangements for the Development of Britain's Colonies after 1940 Sabine Clarke Chapter 5. Basic Research in the Max Planck Society: Science Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1970 Carola Sachse Chapter 6. Beyond the Basic/Applied Distinction?: The Scientific-Technological Revolution in the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1989 Manuel Schramm Chapter 7. Applied Science in Stalin's Time: Hungary, 1945-1953 Gyoergy Peteri Chapter 8. Theory Attached to Practice: Chinese Debates over Basic Research from Thought Remolding to the Bomb, 1949-1966 Zuoyue Wang PART III: OUTLOOK Chapter 9. The Language of Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century: What Comes after Basic and Applied Research? Tim Flink and David Kaldewey Indexes

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This is an important and timely contribution to the conceptual history of science in the twentieth century, with a laudably thorough discussion of methodological and conceptual concerns. - Julian Bauer, European University Association Concepts reflect ideologies and policies as much as they shape them, bridging the gap between expectations and reality. This transnational probe into the 'basic/applied' rhetoric of science policy discourses is a unique and overdue analysis that will contribute to our understanding of past and present relations among science, innovation and the political contexts in which they develop. - Peter Weingart, Bielefeld University

This is an important and timely contribution to the conceptual history of science in the twentieth century, with a laudably thorough discussion of methodological and conceptual concerns. - Julian Bauer, European University Association Concepts reflect ideologies and policies as much as they shape them, bridging the gap between expectations and reality. This transnational probe into the basic/applied rhetoric of science policy discourse is a unique and overdue analysis that will contribute to our understanding of past and present relations among science, innovation and the political contexts in which they develop. - Peter Weingart, Bielefeld University

This is an important and timely contribution to the conceptual history of science in the twentieth century, with a laudably thorough discussion of methodological and conceptual concerns. - Julian Bauer, European University Association

Author Information

David Kaldewey is professor for science studies and science policy at the University of Bonn and co-spokesperson of the Rhine Ruhr Center for Science Communication Research. He holds a doctorate in sociology from Bielefeld University. He has published widely on the changing relationship of science, society, and politics. His research interests include the identity work of scientists and science policy makers, the crisis of truth as a challenge to science communication, and the sociology of universities in world society.

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