Sustainable Development in Science Policy-Making

Overview Chapters

1. Frontmatter

   Seiten 1 - 4

2. Contents

   Seiten 5 - 10

3. Acknowledgements

   Seiten 11 - 12

4. List of abbreviations

   Seiten 13 - 18

5. List of boxes, figures and tables

   Seiten 19 - 20

6. 1 Introduction

   1.1 Shedding light on German science policy for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies

   Seiten 21 - 25

7. 1.2 Sustainable development as normative background

   Seiten 25 - 27

8. 1.3 Contributions to scientific literature

   Seiten 27 - 29

9. 1.4 Analytical structure and outline of the chapters

   Seiten 29 - 32

10. 2 Science in the context of sustainable development

    2.1 Science for a cause? Between impact and autonomy

    Seiten 33 - 35

11. 2.2 Science policy and society

    Seiten 35 - 40

12. 2.3 Concepts of (sustainable) development

    Seiten 40 - 46

13. 2.4 Science, innovation and (sustainable) development

    Seiten 46 - 60

14. 3 Discourse analysis in a policy setting

    3.1 The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse for policy analysis

    Seiten 61 - 64

15. 3.2 The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse in empirical research

    Seiten 64 - 76

16. 4 Research design and methodology

    4.1 Scientific model and approach

    Seiten 77 - 78

17. 4.2 Research design

    Seite 78

18. 4.3 Data collection and sampling

    Seiten 79 - 82

19. 4.4 Fieldwork

    Seiten 82 - 84

20. 4.5 Data analysis

    Seiten 84 - 86

21. 4.6 Reflections on my position as a researcher

    Seiten 86 - 92

22. 5 Public funding for international research cooperation in Germany

    5.1 Research funders for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies

    Seiten 93 - 100

23. 5.2 The BMBF as funder of international research cooperation

    Seiten 100 - 105

24. 5.3 International funding initiatives in FONA

    Seiten 105 - 108

25. 6 Practices of policy production between structural frames, strategies and spaces of agency

    6.1 Structures and agency in the process of discourse actualisation in science policy

    Seiten 109 - 118

26. 6.2 Following a beaten track: Discourse reproduction

    Seiten 118 - 123

27. 6.3 Policy makers as change agents

    Seiten 123 - 128

28. 7 Friends and foes in science policy

    7.1 Defending the turf: Ministries as political entities

    Seiten 129 - 139

29. 7.2 Cooperation countries: From objects of policy to partners in policy making

    Seiten 139 - 143

30. 7.3 Discourse coalitions

    Seiten 143 - 158

31. 7.4 Power in discourse production

    Seiten 158 - 161

32. 7.5 A self-reinforcing equilibrium in science policy

    Seiten 161 - 164

33. 8 The heart of German science policy – and its green lungs

    8.1 The heart and soul of science policy

    Seiten 165 - 172

34. 8.2 The green lungs: Sustainability as a new discourse in science policy

    Seiten 172 - 179

35. 8.3 Translating the discursive leitmotif into discourses of international cooperation and sustainability

    Seiten 180 - 192

36. 8.4 Policy rationales as elements of political identity and symbols of difference

    Seiten 192 - 195

37. 8.5 Problematizing German interest

    Seiten 196 - 198

38. 9 Objectives and expectations of the IWRM and Megacities funding initiatives

    9.1 Deviating expectations in different funding initiatives of the Sustainability Subdepartment

    Seiten 199 - 216

39. 9.2 Policy expectations and mode of science

    Seiten 216 - 228

40. 9.3 High expectations, low conceptualisation

    Seiten 228 - 232

41. 10 Policy effects – coining realities

    10.1 Effects of policy on projects: Monitoring as a strategy for stabilizing discourse

    Seiten 233 - 239

42. 10.2 Projects between the influence of policy and rooms of adaptation

    Seiten 239 - 250

43. 10.3 Project practice: Subversion or compliance?

    Seiten 250 - 254

44. 11 Conclusions

    11.1 Discourse stability and discourse change

    Seiten 255 - 262

45. 11.2 The BMBF's sustainability concept vs. global sustainable development

    Seiten 262 - 267

46. 11.3 Global development as opportunity for German science policy

    Seiten 267 - 274

47. 11.4 Further research questions

    Seiten 274 - 276

48. Appendices

    Appendix A-1: Overview of data collected in interviews and from participant observation

    Seiten 277 - 278

49. Appendix A-2: Overview of interview partners

    Seiten 279 - 285

50. Appendix A-3: Example of guidelines used for a semistructured interview

    Seiten 286 - 287

51. Appendix A-4: Example of coverpage and first page of transcription of a semi-structured interview

    Seiten 288 - 290

52. Appendix A-5: Exemplary page of fieldnotes

    Seite 291

53. Appendix A-6: Extract from list of codes

    Seite 292

54. Appendix B-1: Developing countries and emerging economies with bilateral science, technology and innovation cooperation agreements with Germany

    Seite 293

55. Appendix B-2: Overview of main BMBF funding measures for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies

    Seiten 294 - 296

56. Appendix B-3a: Overview over types of applied project outcomes in the IWRM funding priority

    Seiten 297 - 299

57. Appendix B-3b: Overview over types of applied project outcomes in the Megacities funding initiative

    Seiten 300 - 302

58. Bibliography

    Seiten 303 - 346