The land-grant university system was established as an institutional mechanism to influence and control the agenda of scientists within a revolutionary system of higher education. It was explicitly anti -elitist-an experiment in democracy-as compared to the dominant British and European models...

Non-agricultural groups are increasingly challenging agriculture as a polluter of the environment. Policy responses to findings that groundwater in some cases is contaminated with farm chemicals demonstrate that there are limits to good will towards farmers. Society is prepared to socially...

The conventional view that economists play an important role in the public policy process is contrasted with "Chicago political economy." This strand of the Chicago School of Economics argues that government programs that survive in the political process are superior to available alternatives....