EVS Dissertation Research: Agenda Setting in Scientific Research on Global Warning

9321298 Cozzens本论文研究探讨了利益集团在联邦政府支持的研究议程设置中的作用。重点是关于全球变暖的环境研究案例。与志愿组织积极参与生物医学研究的政策制定不同，环境领域的志愿组织侧重于监管政策，而不是研究政策。论文的目标是帮助回答是否和在何种程度上的问题，以及为什么这样。目前，精英和技术团体在许多科学政策领域占主导地位。专门从事特定实质性领域的志愿组织可以在这些领域发挥重要作用，办法是组织专门知识并在更广泛的公众关切与科学和技术界关切之间发挥跨越边界的翻译作用。虽然研究了自愿组织在管制政策方面的作用，但尚未研究它们在制定长期目标方面的作用。因此，这项研究可以扩展我们对志愿组织作用的理解，并为在制定科学议程方面增加民主参与迈出了一步。在他完成对档案和其他文件的审查后，该奖项允许学生与政府机构、环境组织和其他参与制定环境研究议程的团体的代表进行大约100次访谈。这项研究的最终成果是一篇博士论文，相关文章和演示文稿，以及一份执行摘要，供受访者和其他来自非营利志愿组织的人使用。＊＊＊

9321298 Cozzens This dissertation research explores the roles of interest groups in agenda setting for federally supported research. The focus is the case of environmental research on global warming. Unlike the active involvement of voluntary organizations in policy making for biomedical research, voluntary organizations in the environmental arena have concentrated on regulatory rather than research policy. The goal of the dissertation is to help to answer the questions of whether and to what extent, and why this is so. Currently, elite and technical groups dominate in many science policy arenas. Voluntary organizations that specialize in particular substantive areas can play an important role in these arenas, by organizing expertise and performing a boundary-spanning, translator role between the broader public concerns and the concerns of the scientific and technical communities. While the role of voluntary organizations in regulatory policy has been studied, their role in longer-term goal-setting has not. This study can therefore extend our understanding of the role of voluntary organizations and provide a step towards increasing democratic participation in setting science agendas. After he completes a review of archival and other documents, the award allows the student to conduct approximately 100 interviews with representatives from government agencies, environmental organizations, and other groups that have been involved in setting environmental research agendas. The final product of this research is a doctoral dissertation, associated articles and presentations, and an executive summary for interviewees and others from nonprofit voluntary organizations who request it. ***