Scrutinising Science: The Changing UK Government of Science

by Rebecca Boden, Katherine Barker, Deborah Cox, et al.

By the 1980s, UK government research laboratories were an often quirky but always essential part of the state sector. In one of the most radical experiments in the organization and management of scientific research attempted in the UK, successive Conservative governments sought to reform these laboratories by applying the market-based solution of 'New Public Management'. Scrutinising Science explores and critiques that reform process by examining...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333749693
• ISBN13: 9780333749692
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.8"