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  • Koch: The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer

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

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Human By Nature

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    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Politics of Scientific Advice

    Institutional Design for Quality Assurance

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    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 ... Leer más

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

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    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 ... Leer más

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