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Assessing the Council for Scientific Policy

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This article examines the membership, operations and purposes of the Council for Scientific Policy (CSP) and offers some interim conclusions about the outcome of the CSP experiment. It was written while the CSP was still in existence.

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  2. Report of Committee of Enquiry into the Organisation of Civil Science, Cmnd 2171 (HMSO, 1963).

  3. Statistics of Science and Technology, 1970, 3 and 8 (HMSO, 1970).

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  1. Department of Liberal Studies in Science, University of Manchester,

    PHILIP GUMMETT

  2. Department of Government, University of Manchester,

    ROGER WILLIAMS

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GUMMETT, P., WILLIAMS, R. Assessing the Council for Scientific Policy. Nature 240, 329–332 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/240329a0

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