Herding Scientists

by Andrew B Whitford

When politicians reshape public health agencies, scientists resist changes and, if possible, leave. Those shifts make it harder for agencies to fight future public health threats. This Element focuses on the tension between scientists and managerial control in the policy process, both conceptually and empirically. It centers on a failed attempt to reorganize the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Because many of the gains in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108824102
• ISBN13: 9781108824101
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"