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David Hart
Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Experience
Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA
Current Affiliation: Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
October, 2003
The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy: Governance, Start-Ups, and Growth in the U.S. Knowledge Economy
Book
By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
October 5, 2000
What Future for Science and Technology After This Autumn's US Elections?
Op-Ed, Nature, volume 407
By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Lewis M. Branscomb, Director Emeritus of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management
Winter 1998
Antitrust and Technological Innovation
Journal Article, Issues in Science and Technology, issue 2, volume 15
By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
April 24, 1997
"Investing in Innovation: Toward A Consensus Strategy for Federal Technology Policy"
Working Paper
By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Lewis M. Branscomb, Director Emeritus of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management
December, 1992
"Strategies of Research Policy Advocacy: Anthropogenic Climatic Change Research, 1957-1974"
Discussion Paper
By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
One step toward explaining the rise of climatic change as a political issue is the recognition that interest in it has been nurtured through the political activities of scientists. Beginning in the 1950s, entrepreneurial members of the scientific establishment forged links between their research and the public and private interests of political actors who might be in a position to support them. These entrepreneurs adopted three major strategies between 1957 and 1974. First, they attempted to develop autonomous domestic and international atmospheric science institutions in which they could direct research funding to their own priorities, which included research on anthropogenic climatic change. They justified their research in terms of its contribution to intellectual progress. Second, they took advantage of jurisdictional disputes among some agencies and Congressional factions with regard to weather modification policy to recruit allies. Their support for one side in the dispute was connected to its commitment to their research. Finally, they adopted the rhetoric of the environmental movement to make the issue appear more relevant and important to a different set of agencies. None of these strategies was particularly successful; alternative strategies might have been more fruitful. While their activities may have seemed natural to the actors involved, the paper suggests that more deliberate political strategizing on the part of scientific entrepreneurs may be both plausible and useful.
September, 1992
"Strategies of Research Policy Advocacy: Anthropogenic Climatic Change Research, 1957-1974"
Discussion Paper
By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Herbert Hoover's Last Laugh: The Enduring Significance of the 'Associative State'
Journal Article, Journal of Policy History, issue 3, volume 10
By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Review of William E. Leuchtenburg, The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy
Journal Article, Journal of Policy History, issue 1, volume 11
By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
U.S. Technology Policy: New Tools for New Times
Journal Article, NIRA Review
By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Scientific Elites and the Making of U. S. Policy for Climate Change Research, 1957-1974
Journal Article, Social Studies of Science, volume 23
By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School



