Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Academic Earmarks
Download Academic Earmarks full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Academic Earmarks ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780160473036 Total Pages :850 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (73 download)
Book Synopsis Academic Earmarks by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Download or read book Academic Earmarks written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pig Book by : Citizens Against Government Waste
Download or read book The Pig Book written by Citizens Against Government Waste and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!
Book Synopsis Lobbying for Higher Education by : Constance Ewing Cook
Download or read book Lobbying for Higher Education written by Constance Ewing Cook and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, many faculty and administrators in higher education have regarded themselves as above the fray--part of the national interest, not a special interest--and considered lobbying a dirty business unworthy of their lofty enterprise. Now that academia no longer enjoys all the respect and good will that federal policy makers once afforded it, that attitude has changed. The Republican sweep of the 1994 Congressional elections served as a wake-up call for the higher education community. In response, it made a spirited effort to gain attention for its own policy preferences. Lobbying for Higher Education is about how the major higher education associations and the constituent American colleges and universities try to influence federal policy, especially congressional policy. In clear prose Cook explains how the higher education community organizes itself in Washington, how it lobbies, and how its major interest groups are perceived both by their own members and by public officials. The book focuses on the crucial development in 1995-1996 of a new lobbying paradigm, which included the greater use of campus-based resources and ad hoc coalitions. The most engrossing part of its story is higher education's creative response to the policy turmoil and disruption of the status quo that resulted from the shift in congressional party control. The author, Constance Cook, uses sources unique to this project: over 1,500 survey responses from college and university presidents (a 62% return rate) and nearly 150 interviews with institutional and association leaders. Fortuitously, the 1994 electoral upheaval provided her with an opportunity to capture, analyze, and interpret the responses of her subjects in a period of unusually sweeping change. Lobbying for Higher Education is a timely book with an interesting and important story at its core.
Book Synopsis Funding Science in America by : James D. Savage
Download or read book Funding Science in America written by James D. Savage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funding Science in America, first published in 1999, explores the pros and cons of the academic earmarking issue.
Book Synopsis Cheese Factories on the Moon by : Scott A. Frisch
Download or read book Cheese Factories on the Moon written by Scott A. Frisch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has become part of US political convention to attack 'earmarks' - legislative provisions that direct funds to specific projects - as wasteful and corrupt. In this provocative book Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q. Kelly argue that in fact earmarks are good for American democracy. Using extensive interviews with Washington insiders and detailed examples they illustrate how earmark projects that were pilloried in fact responded to the legitimate needs of local communities, needs that would otherwise have gone unmet. They also demonstrate that media coverage of earmarks tends to be superficial and overly-dramatic. Cheese Factories on the Moon is a much-needed challenge to a widespread but deeply flawed 'consensus' about what is wrong with US congressional spending.
Book Synopsis Science and the University by : Paula E. Stephan
Download or read book Science and the University written by Paula E. Stephan and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and the University investigates the tremendous changes that have taken place in university research over the past several decades, gauging the current state of research in higher education and examining issues and challenges crucial to its future. Scientific research increasingly dominates the aims and agendas of many American universities, and this proliferation—and changes in the way research is conducted—has given rise to important questions about the interrelations of higher education, funding for scientific research, and government policy. The cost of doing science, the commercialization of university research, the changing composition and number of Ph.D. students, the effect of scientific research on other university programs—these are just a few of the many issues explored in this volume from the vantage points of scholars in such diverse fields as economics, biochemistry, genetics, and labor studies.
Book Synopsis Federally Funded Research by : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Download or read book Federally Funded Research written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Federally Funded Research: Decisions for a Decade by :
Download or read book Federally Funded Research: Decisions for a Decade written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Science & Engineering Indicators by :
Download or read book Science & Engineering Indicators written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Defining Values for Research and Technology by : William T. Greenough
Download or read book Defining Values for Research and Technology written by William T. Greenough and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Cold War, federal funding for research at American universities has sharply decreased, while changes in federal policy have combined with the emergence of new high-technology fields to make universities an attractive partner to private industry. In thirteen insightful and wide-ranging essays, Defining Values for Research and Technology examines the modern research university in the throes of this transition. While acknowledging the challenges of increased corporate funding, its contributors argue that university-industry partnerships have the potential to both benefit industrial expansion and enrich academic life.
Book Synopsis Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 2009 by : Gary Burtless
Download or read book Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 2009 written by Gary Burtless and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs is an annual series that serves as a forum for cutting-edge, accessible research on urban policy. The editors seek to integrate broader research into the urban policy discussion by bringing urban studies scholars together with economists and researchers studying subjects with important urban implications. In this issue, papers examine a range of issues that are relevant to urban economics: —the effects of job location in an urban area on residential choice patterns —the impact of race, ethnicity, and gender on mortgage lending —the effects of urban characteristics on the development of new patents The volume also contains three papers on urban development outside of the United States: —urban sprawl in Europe —rural-to-urban migration patterns in Brazil —location patterns of industry agglomeration across Japanese cities
Book Synopsis Budget of the United States Government by : United States. Office of Management and Budget
Download or read book Budget of the United States Government written by United States. Office of Management and Budget and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations and Nutrition Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :228 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (121 download)
Book Synopsis Setting Priorities for Agricultural Research Facilities by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations and Nutrition
Download or read book Setting Priorities for Agricultural Research Facilities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations and Nutrition and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Office of Management and Budget Publisher :Government Printing Office ISBN 13 :9780160786686 Total Pages :1070 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (866 download)
Book Synopsis United States Congressional Serial Set, Serial No. 14822, House Documents No. 3, V. 3-4 by : United States. Office of Management and Budget
Download or read book United States Congressional Serial Set, Serial No. 14822, House Documents No. 3, V. 3-4 written by United States. Office of Management and Budget and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2004 contains analyses that are designed to highlight specified subject areas or provide other significant presentations of budget data that place the budget in perspective. The Analytical Perspectives volume includes economic and accounting analyses; information on Federal receipts and collections; analyses of Federal spending; detailed information on Federal borrowing and debt; baseline or current services estimates; and other technical presentations. It also includes information on the budget system and concepts and a list of Federal programs by agency and account, as well as by budget function. Historical Tables, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2004provides data on budget receipts, outlays, surpluses or deficits, Federal debt, and Federal employment over an extended time period, generally from 1940 or earlier to 2008. To the extent feasible, the data have been adjusted to provide consistency with the 2004 Budget and to provide comparability over time.
Book Synopsis Getting the Government America Deserves by : Richard W. Painter
Download or read book Getting the Government America Deserves written by Richard W. Painter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes government ethics law from the perspective of an academic critic and that of a lawyer who was the chief White House ethics lawyer for two and a half years. Richard Painter argues that the existing ethics regime is in need of substantial reform.
Book Synopsis Science, Money, and Politics by : Daniel S. Greenberg
Download or read book Science, Money, and Politics written by Daniel S. Greenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-09-15 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greenberg explores how scientific research is funded in the United States, including why the political process distributes the funds the way it does and how it can be corrupted by special interests in academia, business, and political machines.
Book Synopsis United States Congressional Serial Set, Serial No. 14755, House Document No. 159, V. 3-4, Budget of U.S. Government, Analytical Perspectives and Historical Tables, 2003 by :
Download or read book United States Congressional Serial Set, Serial No. 14755, House Document No. 159, V. 3-4, Budget of U.S. Government, Analytical Perspectives and Historical Tables, 2003 written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2003 contains analyses that are designed to highlight specified subject areas or provide other significant presentations of budget data that place the budget in perspective. The Analytical Perspectives volume includes economic and accounting analyses; information on Federal receipts and collections; analyses of Federal spending; detailed information on Federal borrowing and debt; the Budget Enforcement Act preview report; current services estimates; and other technical presentations. It also includes information on the budget system and concepts and a list of Federal programs by agency and account, as well as by budget function. Historical Tables, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2003 provides data on budget receipts, outlays, surpluses or deficits, Federal debt, and Federal employment over an extended time period, generally from 1940 or earlier to 2007. To the extent feasible, the data have been adjusted to provide consistency with the 2003 Budget and to provide comparability over time.
