Title

The fluidity of presidential policy choice: The space station, the Russian card, and U.S. foreign policy

Keywords

President - U.S; Russia-U.S. relations; Space station; U.S. Foreign Policy; U.S. Space Policy

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. © 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

1-1-1998

Publication Title

Technology in Society

Volume

20

Issue

4

Number of Pages

421-439

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0160-791X(98)00026-8

Socpus ID

0348198684 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0348198684

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