Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

Abstract

A fraught area in recent times has been the unwillingness of the political executive to accept scientific findings generated in the civil service or in the academy in the face of controversy over regulatory matters on which they bear. Issues about “bending science” became particularly acute during the second Bush presidency, when political refusals to accept scientific findings and political controls over the manner in which some scientific issues were addressed disheartened the civil service, produced strident objections from the science community, and made restoring the integrity of governmental science both a campaign issue for candidate Obama and a pursuit he made prominent in the first years of his presidency. Yet his presidency, too, was marked by prominent refusals to accept the scientific judgments of responsible civil servants on “hot” issues.

Disciplines

Administrative Law | Law | Public Administration

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