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Birkland, Thomas A. The study and practice of public policy. In An introduction to the policy process: theories, concepts, and models of public policy making. 2nd ed. Armonk, NY, M. E. Sharpe, c2005. p. 3-24. Kleinman, Daniel Lee. Thinking about the politics of science and science policy. In Politics on the endless frontier: postwar research policy in the United States. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1995. p. 1-23. Politics and publics. In The Handbook of science and technology studies. 3rd ed. Edited by Edward J. Hackett and others. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press; Published in cooperation with the Society for the Social Studies of Science, c2008. p. 429-433. Stine, Deborah D. Science and technology policymaking: a primer. Washington, Congressional Research Service, 2009. 38 p. (CRS-RL34454)
Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books on science and technology policy may be located in Library Catalogs, include the following:
Kraemer, Sylvia K. Science and technology policy in the United States: open systems in action. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, c2006. 325 p. Pielke, Roger A. The honest broker: making sense of science in policy and politics. Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. 188 p. Shafritz, Jay M., and Christopher P. Borick. Introducing public policy. New York, Pearson Longman, c2008. 396 p. Shaping science and technology policy: the next generation of research. Edited by David H. Guston and Daniel Sarewitz. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, c2006. 370 p. States of knowledge: the co-production of science and social order. Edited by Sheila Jasanoff. London, New York, Routledge, 2004. 317 p. Technology and the future. 10th ed. Edited by Albert H. Teich. Belmont, CA, Thomson/Wadsworth, c2006. 338 p.
Baez, Benjamin, and Deron Boyles. The politics of inquiry: education research and the "culture of science." Albany, State University of New York Press, c2009. 237 p. Carroll, Patrick. Science, culture, and modern state formation. Berkeley, University of California Press, c2006. 275 p. Democratizing technology: Andrew Feenberg's critical theory of technology. Edited by Tyler Veak. Albany, State University of New York Press, c2006. 229 p. Investigating science communication in the information age: implications for public engagement and popular media. Edited by Richard Holliman and others. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009. 288 p. Jasanoff, Sheila. Designs on nature: science and democracy in Europe and the United States. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, c2005. 374 p. Kleinman, Daniel Lee. Science and technology in society: from biotechnology to the internet. Malden, MA, Blackwell Pub., 2005. 141 p. Neal, Homer A., Tobin L. Smith, and Jennifer B. McCormick. Beyond Sputnik: U.S. science policy in the twenty-first century. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, c2008. 386 p. Perspectives on U.S. competitiveness in science and technology. Edited by Titus Galama and James Hosek. Santa Monica, CA, Rand Corp., 2007. 152 p. Science and civil society. Edited by Lynn K. Nyhart and Thomas H. Broman. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, c2002. 373 p. (Osiris: a research journal devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences, 2nd ser., v. 17) Shaping technology, guiding policy: concepts, spaces, and tools. Edited by Knut H. Sørensen and Robin Williams. Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar, c2002. 404 p. Varmus, Harold. The art and politics of science. New York, W. W. Norton, c2009. 315 p. Wang, Zuoyue. In Sputnik's shadow: the President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, c2008. 454 p.
Defense America’s defense meltdown: Pentagon reform for President Obama and the new Congress. Edited by Winslow T. Wheeler. Stanford, CA, Stanford Security Studies, c2009. 244 p. America’s security role in a changing world. Washington, NDU Press for Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, 2009. 68 p. Chow, Brian G., Richard Silberglitt, and Scott Hiromoto. Toward affordable systems: portfolio analysis and management for Army science and technology programs. Santa Monica, CA, RAND, 2009. 153 p. Renshon, Jonathan. Why leaders choose war: the psychology of prevention. Westport, CT, Praeger Security International, 2006. 221 p. US military innovation since the Cold War: creation without destruction. Edited by Harvey M. Sapolsky, Benjamin H. Friedman, and Brendan Rittenhouse Green. London, New York, Routledge, 2009. 202 p. (Strategy and history, 24) Energy and Environment Adaptive governance and water conflict: new institutions for collaborative planning. Edited by John T. Scholz and Bruce Stiftel. Washington, Resources for the Future, c2005. 274 p. Adjudicating climate change: state, national, and international approaches. Edited by William C. G. Burns, Hari M. Osofsky. Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 399 p. Earthly politics: local and global in environmental governance. Edited by Sheila Jasanoff and Marybeth Long Martello. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, c2004. 356 p. Edelstein, Michael R., and William J. Makofske. Radon's deadly daughters: science, environmental policy, and the politics of risk. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c1998. 361 p. Energy: science, policy, and the pursuit of sustainability. Edited by Robert Bent, Lloyd Orr, and Randall Baker. Washington, Island Press, c2002. 257 p. Glennon, Robert Jerome. Unquenchable: America’s water crisis and what to do about it. Washington, Island Press, c2009. 414 p. Hamblin, Jacob Darwin. Poison in the well: radioactive waste in the oceans at the dawn of the nuclear age. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, c2008. 311 p. Managing the transition to renewable energy: theory and practice from local, regional and macro perspectives. Edited by Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh and Frank R. Bruinsma. Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar, c2008. 385 p. Foreign and International Birstein, Vadim J. The perversion of knowledge: the true story of Soviet science. Cambridge, MA, Westview, 2004. 492 p. Comparative science and technology policy. Edited by Sheila Jasanoff. Cheltenham, UK, Lyme, NH, Edward Elgar Pub., c1997. 650 p. (The international library of comparative public policy, 5) European energy futures 2030: technology and social visions from the European Energy Delphi Survey. Timon Wehnert and others. Berlin, New York, Springer, 2007. 231 p. Japan’s disarmament and non-proliferation policy. 4th ed. Tokyo, Disarmament, Non-proliferation and Science Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2008. 214 p. Müller-Kraenner, Sascha. Energy security: re-measuring the world. London, Sterling, VA, Earthscan, 2008. 170 p. Science in India: past and present. Edited by B. V. Subbarayappa. Mumbai, published for Nehru Centre, Mumbai, by Popular Prakashan, c2007. 499 p. Life Sciences Agricultural conservation. Edited by Anthony G. Hargis. New York, Nova Science Publishers, c2009. 186 p. Controversies in science and technology: from maize to menopause. Edited by Daniel Lee Kleinman, Abby J. Kinchy, and Jo Handelsman. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, c2005. 341 p. Forest futures: science, politics, and policy for the next century. Edited by Karen Arabas and Joe Bowersox. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2004. 351 p. Genetically modified foods: debating biotechnology. Edited by Michael Ruse and David Castle. Amherst, NY, Prometheus Books, 2002. 355 p. Genetics: science, ethics, and public policy: a reader. Edited by Thomas A. Shannon. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2005. 200 p. The Human embryonic stem cell debate: science, ethics, and public policy. Edited by Suzanne Holland, Karen Lebacqz, and Laurie Zoloth. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, c2001. 257 p. New issues in food policy, control and research. Edited by Arthur P. Riley. New York, Nova Science Publishers, c2007. 177 p. Parthasarathy, Shobita. Building genetic medicine: breast cancer, technology, and the comparative politics of health care. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, c2007. 271 p. Tobacco and public health: science and policy. Edited by Peter Boyle and others. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 2004. 798 p. Webster, D. G. Adaptive governance: the dynamics of Atlantic fisheries management. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, c2009. 391 p. United States Government (Historically Important Works) Bush, Vannevar. Endless horizons. Washington, Public Affairs Press, 1946. 182 p. From the lab to the Hill: essays celebrating 20 years of Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows. Edited by Anthony Fainberg. Washington, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1994. 397 p. Jasanoff, Sheila. The fifth branch: science advisers as policymakers. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1990. 302 p. Jones, Megan, David H. Guston, and Lewis M. Branscomb. Informed legislatures: coping with science in a democracy. Lanham, MD, University Press of America, 1996. 286 p. (CSIA occasional paper, no. 11) Lakoff, Sanford A. Knowledge and power: essays on science and government. New York, Free Press, 1966. 502 p. Smith, Bruce L. R. American science policy since World War II. Washington, Brookings Institution, c1989. 230 p. United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. Science, the endless frontier. A report to the President by Vannevar Bush, the director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. July 1945. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1945. 184 p.
The Concise Oxford dictionary of politics. 3rd ed. Edited by Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009. 599 p. The Handbook of science and technology studies. 3rd ed. Edited by Edward J. Hackett and others. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press; Published in cooperation with the Society for the Social Studies of Science, c2008. 1065 p. Shafritz, Jay M. Dictionary of public policy and administration. Boulder, CO, Westview Press, c2004. 310 p.
Conference on Statistics, Science and Public Policy (12th, 2007, Hailsham, England). Statistics, science and public policy XII: measurement, risk and society: proceedings of the Conference on Statistics, Science and Public Policy, held at Herstmonceux Castle, Hailsham, U.K., April 18-21, 2007. Edited by A. M. Herzberg. Kingston, ON, A. M. Herzberg, c2008. 213 p. Innovation policies for the 21st century: report of a symposium. Edited by Charles W. Wessner. Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, National Academies Press, c2007. 206 p. NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmental Security and Public Safety--Problems and Needs in Conversion Policy and Research after 15 Years of Conversion in Central & Eastern Europe. (2005, Cottbus, Germany). Environmental security and public safety: proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmental Security and Public Safety: problems and needs in conversion policy and research after 15 years of conversion in Central & Eastern Europe. Edited by Wolfgang Spyra and Michael Katzsch. Dordrecht, London, Springer, 2007. 207 p. Science and technology and the future development of societies: international workshop proceedings. Edited by Glenn Schweitzer. Committee on the U.S.-Iran Workshop on Science and Technology and the Future Development of Societies; Office for Central Europe and Eurasia; Development, Security, and Cooperation, Policy and Global Affairs; National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, National Academies Press, 2008. 130 p. State science and technology policy advice: issues, opportunities, and challenges: summary of a national convocation. Steve Olson, rapporteur; Jay B. Labov, editor. National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Washington, National Academies Press, c2008. 83 p.
Technical Reports and other types of literature may be identified in the following abstracting and indexing journals:
These selected reports are available in the technical reports collection of the Science, Technology and Business Division. Other reports on the topic may be purchased from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 5301 Shawnee Rd, Alexandria, VA 22312. NTIS telephone: (703) 605-6000. NTIS web site URL: http://www.ntis.gov
Dissertations may be identified by using online resources or the following indexes located in the Main Reading Room. Consult any reference librarian about options. Some dissertations may be available in full text through electronic resources on public terminals at the Library of Congress.
Cheney, David W. Information technology, science, and public policy. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2008. Gallo, Jason. Speaking of science: the role of the National Science Foundation in the development of United States information infrastructure. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2008. Levine, Aaron David. Human embryonic stem cell research amid regulatory uncertainty. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2007. McNie, Elizabeth Clark. Co-producing useful climate science for policy: lessons from the RISA program. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2008. Quon, Nicole Ciewhon. Decisions at scientific agencies: how do the NIH and the FDA balance expert opinions, changing agendas, and political pressure? Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2007. Roberts, Kirthi. Beyond energy futures: an exploration of sustainability-driven and transition dynamics-driven approaches to guiding socio-technical change. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2007. Yang, Chi-Jen. Powered by technology or powering technology? Belief-based decision-making in nuclear power and synthetic fuel. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2008.
Abstracting and Indexing Services that index relevant journal articles and other literature are listed below. Some suggested terms for searching are “science policy,” “technology policy,” or other headings, depending upon the topic of interest. Many of the titles may now be available in electronic format. Consult a reference librarian for the location and format of abstracting and indexing services.
Journals that often contain articles relevant to to science and technology policy:
Brooks, Linton F. A vision for U.S.-Russian cooperation on nuclear security. Issues in science and technology, v. 26, fall 2009: 25-28. Dehner, Corey Denenberg. Environmental law, policy, and economics: reclaiming the environmental agenda. Review of policy research, v. 26, May 2009: 346-348. Fernández-Ribas, Andrea. Public support to private innovation in multi-level governance systems: an empirical investigation. Science and public policy, v. 36, July 2009: 457-467. Kadekodi, Gopal K. Social relevance of science and technology. Current science, v. 96, June 10, 2009: 1450-1452. Kappel, Carrie, V., and others. In the zone: comprehensive ocean protection. Issues in science and technology, v. 25, spring 2009: 33-44. Keynes, Randal. Darwin's ways of working--the opportunity for education. Journal of biological education, v. 43, summer 2009: 101-103. Kumar, M. Jagadesh. Evaluating scientists: citations, impact factor, h-index, online page hits and what else? IETE technical review, v. 26, May/June 2009: 165-168. Liebow, Edward, and others. Toward the assessment of scientific and public health impacts of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Extramural Asthma Research Program using available data. Environmental health perspectives, v. 117, July 2009: 1147-1154. Longo, Bernadette. Mathematics, computer development, and science policy debates after World War II. IEEE annals of the history of computing, v. 30, July/Sept. 2008: 64-72. Nauwaler, Clare, René Wintjes, and Roger Pielke. Innovation policy in Europe: measurement and strategy. Review of policy research, v. 26, July 2009: 494-495. Onoda, Takao. IEA policies--G8 recommendations and an afterwards. Energy policy, v. 37, Oct. 2009: 3823-3831. Pielke, Roger, and Roberta Klein. The rise and fall of the science advisor to the President of the United States. Minerva, v. 47, Oct. 2008: 7-29. Rosser, Sue V., and Mark Zachary Taylor. Why are we still worried about women in science? Academe, v. 95, May/June 2009: 7-10.
Selected materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet boxes include the following: Atkinson, Robert, and Howard Wial. Creating a national innovation foundation. Issues in science and technology, v. 25, fall 2008: 75-84. Capps, Krista A., and others. Training tomorrow's environmental problem solvers: an integrative approach to graduate education. Bioscience, v. 59, June 2009: 514-521. Ehrenberg, Rachel. The biofuel future. Science news, v. 176, Aug. 1, 2009: 24-29. Fthenakis, Vasilis, James E. Mason, and Ken Zweibel. The technical, geographical and economic feasibility for solar energy to supply the energy needs of the US. Energy policy, v. 37, Feb. 2009: 387-399. Harris, Jason. Stem cells: a new plan of attack. HEM/ONC today, v. 10, May 25, 2009: 1-13. Harris, Shane. The cyberwar plan. National journal, v. 41, Nov. 14, 2009: 18-24. Himanen, Laura, and others. Influence of research funding and science policy on university research performance: a comparison of five countries. Science and public policy, v. 36, July 2009: 419-430. The National Academies. Understanding stem cells: an overview of the science and issues from the National Academies. Washington, National Academies Press, 2007. 24 p. National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. The National Academies’ guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research: 2008 Amendments. Washington, National Academies Press, 2008. 54 p. Pautz, Michelle C. Perceptions of the regulated community in environmental policy: the view from below. Review of policy research, v. 26, Sept. 2009: 533-550. Sarewitz, Daniel. The rightful place of science. Issues in science and technology, v. 25, summer 2009: 89-94. Schmidt, Charles W. Nanotechnology-related environment, health, and safety research: examining the national strategy. Environmental health perspectives, v. 177, Apr. 2009: A159- A161. Smith-Doerr, Laurel. Decoupling policy and practice: how life scientists respond to ethics education. Minerva, v. 46, Mar. 2008: 1-16. Wang, Zuoyue, and Naomi Oreskes. History of science and American science policy. Isis, v. 99, June 2008: 365-373.
American Association for the Advancement of Science Federation of American Scientists (FAS) National Academies (Formerly: National Academy of Sciences) Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy The National Science Foundation Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director's Office Science Division Technology Division
The Internet offers a number of sites useful for finding information on science and technology policy. Several of the organizations listed above provide links to related sites from their web sites. You might try the sites listed below, or use your favorite search engine (such as Google or Yahoo) and appropriate key words to identify more specific resources.
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