An agent, not a mole: Assessing the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

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• Professor David M Hart (Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University)
• Thursday 26 June 2014, 17:30-19:30
• Judge Business School, W2.01.

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In this seminar David Hart argues in favour of four criteria for assessing the performance of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) within the Executive Office of the US President: trying to kill bad ideas (and sometimes succeeding), mobilizing expertise and confidence to support crisis response, identifying new issues and developing presidential policy initiatives, and catalysing and coordinating multi-agency science and technology activities, especially in response to presidential goals. These criteria are illustrated with episodes from OSTP ’s history. They place OSTP in a variety of roles, ranging from disinterested broker of expertise to policy entrepreneur, but always as an agent of the President.

This talk is part of the Centre for Science and Policy Lectures & Seminars series.

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