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Science and Public Policy

By: Sarah Vorpahl,Nicholas Montoni

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Science and policy exist symbiotically: science informs the government, which funds science to continue innovating and producing new information. While it is true that few policymakers are themselves scientists, it is thanks to scientists that the United States put a person on the moon and the Surgeon General puts warning labels on alcohol and tobacco products. Similarly, science as we know it could not be conducted without policy and support from decision makers. The government continually spends vast sums of money on fundamental and applied research at universities and laboratories because policymakers know how important continued innovation is to our world. When the authors were navigating their grad school experience, and figuring out what to do next, the same question kept coming up: how does someone actually get into science policy? The reason the answer to that question seemed so out-of-reach is because there is no one way to get involved in policy as a scientist. There are actually myriad ways for scientists to get involved in policy, regardless of research experience, background, interests, or career stage. Not only does this book outline some of these avenues, it also serves as a sort of “Civics 100” to help scientists who are new to policy understand how things work in local, state, and federal government.

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American Chemical Society

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Rough Rider in the White House

Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire

By: Sarah Watts

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Rough Rider in the White House

Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire

By: Sarah Watts

In this book, Sarah Watts probes this dark side of the Rough Rider, presenting a fascinating psychological portrait of a man whose personal obsession with masculinity profoundly influenced the fate of a nation. Drawing on his own writings and on media representations of him, Watts attributes the wide appeal of Roosevelt's style of manhood to the way it addressed the hopes and anxieties of men of his time. Like many of his contemporaries, Roosevelt struggled with what it meant to be a man in the modern era. He saw two foes within himself: a fragile weakling and a primitive beast. The weakling he punished and toughened with rigorous, manly pursuits such as hunting, horseback riding, and war. The beast he unleashed through brutal criticisms of homosexuals, immigrants, pacifists, and sissies - anyone who might tarnish the nation's veneer of strength and vigor. With his unabashed paeans to violence and aggressive politics, Roosevelt ultimately offered American men a chance to project their longings and fears onto the nation and its policies. In this way he harnessed the primitive energy of men's desires to propel the march of American civilization - over the bodies of anyone who might stand in its way."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226876071

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Science and Public Policy

By: Sarah Vorpahl,Nicholas Montoni

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Science and Public Policy

By: Sarah Vorpahl,Nicholas Montoni

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American Chemical Society

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084129903X

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Science and Public Policy

Science and Public Policy

Rough Rider in the White House

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Science and Public Policy

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