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AAAS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
POLICY YEARBOOK
1999

Covering major developments during 1998, the new AAAS Yearbook is a concise yet comprehensive source of information on current policy issues affecting science and technology. Included are papers from the 1998 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Colloquium together with other key articles and speeches and excerpts from reports by the State Science and Technology Institute, the Committee for Economic Development, and the National Science Board. Working scientists, engineers, government policymakers and administrators, industrial managers, scholars and students of science and technology policy, and many others will find this book an invaluable resource. Special quantity discounts are available for classroom use. The table of contents is reproduced below.

AAAS Science and
Technology Policy
Yearbook 1999

Albert H. Teich
Stephen D. Nelson
Celia McEnaney
Tina M. Drake
editors

Committee on Science, Engineering
and Public Policy

American Association for
the Advancement of Science

Copyright 1999 by the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science

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The AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 1999 is available for $24.95 a copy ($19.96 for AAAS members) from the AAAS Distribution Center. Please refer to AAAS Publication Number 99-04S.

By mail: please send a check (made out to AAAS) to: AAAS Distribution Center, P.O. Box 521, Annapolis Junction, MD 20701.

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Contents (Total: 328 pages)

Part 1: Presidential Addresses

1. Address to the 150th Anniversary AAAS Annual Meeting (1998) - President William J. Clinton
2. Address to the Centennial Anniversary AAAS Annual Meeting (1948) - President Harry S. Truman

Part 2: The 1998 William D. Carey Lecture

3. Past and Prologue: Why I Am Optimistic About the Future - Representative George E. Brown, Jr.

Part 3: Issues of the Day

4. Unlocking Our Future - Representative Vernon J. Ehlers
5. For U.S. Science Policy, It's Time for a Reality Check - Richard E. Sclove
6. Entering the Century of the Environment: A New Social Contract for Science - Jane Lubchenco
7. Science, Technology, and Health and U.S. Foreign Policy
- Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering
8. Reshaping Japan: The Role of Science and Technology - The Honorable Sadakazu Tanigaki
9. The Interdependence of Science and Law - Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer
10. Science and the Law - D. Allan Bromley
11. An Overview of State Science and Technology Strategic Planning
- State Science and Technology Institute

Part 4: Evaluating Investments and Performance in Research

12. Performance of R&D, Accountability of R&D, and the Government Performance and Results Act
- Andrew J. Vogelsang
13. Performance and Accountability: Applying GPRA to Research - Joshua Gotbaum
14. The Here and Now of NSF and GPRA - Joseph Bordogna
15. Evaluating Investments and Performance in UK Science - Ben Martin
16. Results and Responsibility: Science, Society, and GPRA - Susan E. Cozzens

Part 5: Current R&D Budget Issues

17. The Edge of Change - Kerri-Ann Jones
18. America's Basic Research: Prosperity Through Discovery - Committee for Economic Development
19. Government Funding of Scientific Research - National Science Board
20. A Congressional Perspective on S&T Issues for FY 1999 - David Goldston

Part 6: The Interaction of Science and Its Publics

21. Scientifically Illiterate vs. Politically Clueless - Gregory E. van der Vink
22. The Civic Scientist and Science Policy - Neal Lane
23. Views and Expectations of the Research University - Franklin D. Raines
24. The "Bad" Image of the Scientist: Fact or Fiction? - Alan H. McGowan
25. The Changing Political Image of Scientists in the United States - Marcel C. LaFollette

Part 7: 150 Years of American Science Policy

26. The Role of AAAS in U.S. Science Policy: The First 150 Years
- Amy Crumpton and Albert H. Teich
27. U.S. Science Policy and Science Advice, 1840-1878 - Marc Rothenberg
28. Science and Technology and U.S. Economic Policy, 1921-1953 - David M. Hart
29. Science and Public Policy: The Steelman Report and the Politics
of Post-World War II Science Policy - William A. Blanpied

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