Title

The fluidity of presidential policy choice: the space station, the Russian card, and US foreign policy

Authors

Authors

R. Handberg

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Technol. Soc.

Keywords

space station; president US; US foreign policy; Russia-US relations; US; space policy; Social Issues

Abstract

This paper examines the general executive policy processes that were in place in 1984. These processes, through which the original space station budget proposal was approved, became so uncontrolled that a severe and publicly embarrassing retrenchment became necessary in 1993 to enable the program to survive for another year. The focus here is on how presidential leadership is exercised in the science and technology policy arena which is normally viewed as peripheral to the president's major policy interests. The survival of the current International Space Station now depends upon it remaining central to the president's foreign policy agenda-which prompts recollections of earlier Apollo Program experiences. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Technology in Society

Volume

20

Issue/Number

4

Publication Date

1-1-1998

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Language

English

First Page

421

Last Page

439

WOS Identifier

WOS:000077633900004

ISSN

0160-791X

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