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  • Weingart: The Future of Scholarly Publishing

    Open Access and the Economics of Digitisation

    by Niels Taubert, Peter Weingart ...
    The formal scientific communication system is currently undergoing significant change. This is due to four developments: the digitisation of formal science communication; the economisation of academic publishing as profit drives many academic publishers and other providers of information; an increase in the self-observation of science by means of publication, citation and utility-based indicators; ... Read more

    $54.59 USD

  • Koch: The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer

    The Impact of Foreign Aid Experts on Policy-making in South Africa and Tanzania

    by Susanne Koch, Peter Weingart ...
    With the rise of the ëknowledge for developmentí paradigm, expert advice has become a prime instrument of foreign aid. At the same time, it has been object of repeated criticism: the chronic failure of ëtechnical assistanceí ñ a notion under which advice is commonly subsumed ñ has been documented in a host of studies. Nonetheless, international organisations continue to send advisors, promising to ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Politics of Scientific Advice

    Institutional Design for Quality Assurance

    Edited by Peter Weingart, Justus Lentsch ...
    Controversies over issues such as genetically engineered food, foot-and-mouth disease and the failure of risk models in the global financial crisis have raised concerns about the quality of expert scientific advice. The legitimacy of experts, and of the political decision-makers and policy-makers whom they advise, essentially depends on the quality of the advice. But what does quality mean in this ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Human By Nature

    Between Biology and the Social Sciences

    Edited by Peter Weingart, Sandra D. Mitchell, Peter J. Richerson, Sabine Maasen ...
    Representing a wide range of disciplines -- biology, sociology, anthropology, economics, human ethology, psychology, primatology, history, and philosophy of science -- the contributors to this book recently spent a complete academic year at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) discussing a plethora of new insights in reference to human cultural evolution. These scholars acted as a ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge

    by Sabine Maasen, Peter Weingart ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is on the role of metaphors as powerful catalysts, and the book dissects their role in the construction of theories of knowledge. It is of vital interest to social and cognitive scientists alike. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences

    Edited by Peter Weingart, Bernd Huppauf ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    What is a popular image of science and where does it come from? Little is known about the formation of science images and their transformation into popular images of science. In this anthology, contributions from two areas of expertise: image theory and history and the sociology of the sciences, explore techniques of constructing science images and transforming them into highly ambivalent images ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Sciences’ Media Connection –Public Communication and its Repercussions

    Edited by Simone Rödder, Martina Franzen, Peter Weingart ...
    Series Book 28 - Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook
    The Yearbook addresses the overriding question: what are the effects of the ‘opening up’ of science to the media? Theoretical considerations and a host of empirical studies covering different configurations provide an in-depth analysis of the sciences’ media connection and its repercussions on science itself. They help to form a sound judgement on this recent development. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    by Ken Hyland ...
    Series series Oxford Applied Linguistics
    Ken Hyland provides an authoritative discussion of key aspects of writing for academic publication. What are the issues surrounding particular academic genres? What are the processes experienced by scholars writing in these genres on the way to publication? The book explores some of the biggest issues and challenges in academic publication, including: the impact of English as a global academic ... Read more

    $66.39 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda

    Contested Collaboration

    Edited by Sachin Chaturvedi, Heiner Janus, Stephan Klingebiel, Xiaoyun Li, André de Mello e Souza, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Dorothea Wehrmann ...
    This open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested cooperation’. Development actors, including governments providing aid or South-South Cooperation, developing countries, and non-governmental actors (civil society, philanthropy, and businesses) constantly challenge underlying narratives and norms of development. The ... Read more

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  • Executive Politics in Times of Crisis

    Edited by M. Lodge, K. Wegrich ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Executive Politics in Times of Crisis brings together leading international scholars to consider key trends and challenges that have defined executive politics over the past decade. It showcases key debates in executive politics and contributes to an understanding of the 'executive factor' in political life. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Promoting Research Integrity In A Global Environment

    by Tony Mayer, Nicholas H Steneck ...
    Globalisation has become a rewarding but challenging fact of life for scientific and scholarly researchers. Intellectually, they work with shared understandings of their areas of research and research methods. Professionally, responsibility and best practices are subject to many different rules and standards that vary across disciplines, countries, and cultures. They know how to measure and study ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Political Economy of Europe's Incomplete Single Market

    Edited by David Howarth, Tal Sadeh ...
    Series series Journal of European Public Policy Series
    Progress in European market integration over the past two decades has come at the expense of growing flexibility, or differentiation, in the laws that govern the Single Market (SM) as well as the way that these laws are implemented. This volume examines how the completion of the SM has been held back in the varied implementation of European Union competition policy, variation in national policies ... Read more

    $72.99 USD