How Does the Government (Want to) Fund Science? Politics, Lobbying and Academic Earmarks

John de Figueiredo and Brian Silverman

No 4484-04, Working papers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management

Abstract: This paper examines academic earmarks and its role in the funding of university research. It provides a summary and review of the evidence on the supply of earmarks by legislators. It then discusses the role of university lobbying for earmarks on the demand side. After a review of the literature of the impact of earmarks on research quantity and quality, the paper poses a number of public policy questions related to the funding of science.

Keywords: Lobbying; Education; Political Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-12-10
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