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008			220121s2009 maua b 001 0 eng
020			_a9780262512961 (pbk.)
020			_a0262512963 (pbk.)
020			_a9780262013123 (hardcover)
020			_a0262013126 (hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)269455374
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050	0	0	_aGE170 _b.K45 2009
100	1		_aKeller, Ann Campbell.
245	1	0	_aScience in environmental policy : _bthe politics of objective advice / _cAnn Campbell Keller.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bMIT Press, _cc2009.
300			_axi, 278 p. : _bill.
490	1		_aPolitics, science, and the environment
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aTheories of science in policy making -- Scientists and agenda setting -- Scientists and legislation -- Scientists and implementation.
520			_a"Scientists often bring issues to the policy agenda, translating scientific questions into everyday language and political terms. When Roger Revelle characterized Earth as a spaceship in testimony to Congress in 1957, his evocative language framed the issue of our planet's climate vulnerability in a way that technical discourse could not. In this book, Ann Campbell Keller examines the influence of scientists on environmental policy and makes the novel argument that scientists' adherence to the role of neutral advisor varies over the course of the policy-making process. Keller divides the policy process into three stages - agenda setting, legislation, and implementation - and compares scientists' influence on acid rain and climate change policy at these different stages over the course of several decades.
520			_aShe finds that scientists face more pressure to uphold the ideal of objectivity as policy-making processes advance and become more formalized, and thus are more likely to engage in advocacy and persuasion in the earlier, less formal, agenda-setting stage of the process. In the later, more structured legislative and implementation phases, scientists-working hard to give the appearance of neutral expertise - cede the role of persuader to others. Keller draws on theoretical work in political science and science studies and on empirical evidence from scientific reports, news coverage, congressional hearings, and interviews. Focusing on comparable cases and considering scientists' participation in them over time, she offers insights into how the context of decision making affects scientists' policy influence and emphasizes the multiple pathways by which scientific meaning is constructed in public settings."--pub. desc.
650		4	_aEnvironmental policy.
650		4	_aScience and state.
650		4	_aScientists _xPolitical activity.
830		0	_aPolitics, science, and the environment.
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