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

9321298 Cozzens本论文的研究探讨了利益集团在联邦政府支持的研究议程设置的作用。 重点是关于全球变暖的环境研究。 与志愿组织积极参与生物医学研究的政策制定不同，环境竞技场的志愿组织侧重于管理政策而不是研究政策。 本文的目的是帮助回答是否和在多大程度上，以及为什么是这样的问题。 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，组织专门知识，在更广泛的公众关切与科技界关切之间发挥跨越边界的翻译作用。 虽然人们已经研究了志愿组织在监管政策中的作用，但它们在长期目标制定中的作用却没有。 因此，这项研究可以扩大我们对志愿组织作用的理解，并为增加科学议程制定中的民主参与迈出一步。 在他完成档案和其他文件的审查后，该奖项允许学生与政府机构，环保组织和其他参与制定环境研究议程的团体的代表进行约100次访谈。 本研究的最终产品是博士论文，相关文章和演示文稿，以及受访者和非营利志愿组织要求的其他人的执行摘要。

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. ***