{"product_id":"science-competes-barry-bozeman-9780262552431","title":"Science Competes: Informing Policy in a Time of Distrust, Fracture, and Chaos","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhen science competes with myriad influences in public policymaking, how can we ensure that it does so effectively?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePolicymakers, like most people today, have a world of information within easy reach, much of it wrong. How, amid the chaos and misdirection of our day's information ecosystem, can science compete for the attention and trust of those who make public policy--especially at a time when issues like proliferating infectious diseases and climate change put a premium on accurate and relevant scientific information? What's needed, Barry Bozeman suggests in \u003ci\u003eScience Competes\u003c\/i\u003e, is a clearer understanding of how scientific information is conveyed, how it is understood and used, and where it fits in the wide array of information that might be of use to those who make and administer policy, laws, and regulations, as well as citizens who actively participate in public life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcknowledging the importance of different sorts of information--historical, experiential, political--to decision-making, Bozeman focuses on enhancing, not maximizing, the effective use of science in public policy. This entails recognizing that valid and useful scientific information is not necessarily formal scientific knowledge, but often takes the form of science by-products such as raw or structured data, graphics, and conceptual models. Explaining how such information can be better distinguished from half-truths and pernicious falsehoods, \u003ci\u003eScience Competes\u003c\/i\u003e also raises the possibility that effective competition might require improvements in science institutions, norms, and ideas about acceptable behavior.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barry Bozeman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262552434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262552431\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2026","brand":"Barry Bozeman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48991646548223,"sku":"9780262552431","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/science-competes-barry-bozeman-9780262552431","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}