This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Based on a study of the European Research Council (ERC), the author investigates profound structural change in the social organization of science, as the ERC intervenes in public science systems that, until now, have largely been organized at the national level.
Against the background of an emerging new science policy, Europe's New Scientific Elite explores the social mechanisms that...
This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elit...
