Coping with Trouble: How Science Reacts to Political Disturbances of Research 
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Schimank, Uwe; Stucke, Andreas

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Coping with Trouble: How Science Reacts to Political Disturbances of Research Conditions

Schimank, U., & Stucke, A. (Eds.). (1994). Coping with Trouble: How Science Reacts to Political Disturbances of Research Conditions. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus Verlag.

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Schimank, Uwe¹, Editor
Stucke, Andreas¹, Editor

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1Projektbereiche vor 1997, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society, ou_1214553

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Abstract: Manifold political interventions, such as resource cutbacks, political regulation and societal instrumentalization of research, are frequently viewed by today's scientists and research institutes as trouble which must be coped with. Approaching the sociology of science from an institutionalist perspective, the editors introduce the concept of "Coping with Trouble". The case studies examine scientists' efforts to cope, emphasizing the complexity of actor constellations and the mutual interference between coping reactions. Finally, in a comparative analysis of its undesirable and unintended results, the editors explain why coping is often ineffective and insufficient.

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Language(s): eng - English

Dates: Date issued: 1994

Publication Status: Issued

Pages: 400

Publishing info: Frankfurt a. M. : Campus Verlag

Table of Contents: Coping with Trouble as a Complex Constellation of Political and
Research Actors: Introducing a Theoretical Perspective
Uwe Schimank and Andreas Stucke
How German Professors Handled Increasing Scarcity of Resources
for Their Research: A Three-Level Actor Constellation
Uwe Schimank
Political Disturbances of Biomedical Research in Great Britain and
the United States: How Political Choice Is Translated into Scientific Behavior
Dietmar Braun
Conflict Avoidance within a System of Centralized State-Science
Relations: The Agricultural Research Sector in France
Gerhard Krauss
Interference between Scientists and Research Policy in a French
Research Institution: The Case of the CNRS
Christine Musselin and Catherine Vilkas
Academy of Sciences in Crisis: A Case Study of a Fruitless Struggle
for Survival
Renate Mayntz
German Unification as a Steamroller? The Institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in the Period of Transformation
Hans-Georg Wolf
German National Research Centers under Political Pressure:
Interference between Different Levels of Actors
Andreas Stucke
Biotechnological Research in Germany: Problems of Political Regulation and Public Acceptance
Raimund Hasse and Bernhard Gill
If People Become Afraid of Your Research Methods: Conflicts over
Research Reactors in Berlin and Munich
Jochen Glaser, Bettina Becker, Anne Goedicke, Thomas Hager,
Marion Hoppner, Astrid Karl and Grit Laudel
Space Policy in West Germany 1945-1965: Strategic Action and Actor Network Dynamics
Johannes Weyer
A Theoretical Examination of the Cases: Why Coping Is Often Difficult and Defective
Uwe Schimank and Andreas Stucke
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Identifiers: eDoc: 563202
ISBN: 3-593-35020-3
ISBN: 0-312-12240-3

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Title: Schriften aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung

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