Scientists and the State: Domestic Structures and the International Context. (book reviews)

Etel Solingen has undertaken, in this edited volume, a potentially useful and difficult, though ultimately flawed, task, namely, to relate what she calls the political economy of national scientific communities to the political and economic situation of the states in which they are embedded. Her underlying assumption is "that domestic structures and international context influence the nature and characteristics of national scientific communities and their relation to the state" (p.

23). Not a particularly startling idea but well worth probing if only to better understand and ...

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