Science Funding: Politics and Porkbarrel

by Joseph Paul Martino

Americans have become resigned to seeing Congress vote money for porkbarrel projects of all kinds-roads, dams, post offices, military installations-in the districts of influential legislators. In recent years Congress has, almost without public notice, extended this form of vote-buying and pandering into a new domain: science. Where formerly scientific funding proposals were evaluated by outside experts on the basis of merit, there is now an increasing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560000333
• ISBN13: 9781560000334
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 406 Pages