Reviewing policy: Social science policy: challenges, interactions, Principals and agents

摘要

Four science policy issues are discussed- intervention, interaction, interdisciplinarity, and international co-operation-in relation to how they affect the processes of making science policy, and have been shaped by them. The principal-agent model introduces to science policy the important concept of science policy as contractual delegation by policy-makers to sci- entists. It provides a framework in which the processes and challenges can be analysed and modelled.