Sustainable Development in Science Policy-Making: The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research's Policies for International Cooperation in Sustainability Research

Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
List of boxes, figures and tables
1 Introduction
1.1 Shedding light on German science policy for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies
1.2 Sustainable development as normative background
1.3 Contributions to scientific literature
1.4 Analytical structure and outline of the chapters
2 Science in the context of sustainable development
2.1 Science for a cause? Between impact and autonomy
2.2 Science policy and society
2.3 Concepts of (sustainable) development
2.4 Science, innovation and (sustainable) development
3 Discourse analysis in a policy setting
3.1 The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse for policy analysis
3.2 The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse in empirical research
4 Research design and methodology
4.1 Scientific model and approach
4.2 Research design
4.3 Data collection and sampling
4.4 Fieldwork
4.5 Data analysis
4.6 Reflections on my position as a researcher
5 Public funding for international research cooperation in Germany
5.1 Research funders for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies
5.2 The BMBF as funder of international research cooperation
5.3 International funding initiatives in FONA
6 Practices of policy production between structural frames, strategies and spaces of agency
6.1 Structures and agency in the process of discourse actualisation in science policy
6.2 Following a beaten track: Discourse reproduction
6.3 Policy makers as change agents
7 Friends and foes in science policy
7.1 Defending the turf: Ministries as political entities
7.2 Cooperation countries: From objects of policy to partners in policy making
7.3 Discourse coalitions
7.4 Power in discourse production
7.5 A self-reinforcing equilibrium in science policy
8 The heart of German science policy – and its green lungs
8.1 The heart and soul of science policy
8.2 The green lungs: Sustainability as a new discourse in science policy
8.3 Translating the discursive leitmotif into discourses of international cooperation and sustainability
8.4 Policy rationales as elements of political identity and symbols of difference
8.5 Problematizing German interest
9 Objectives and expectations of the IWRM and Megacities funding initiatives
9.1 Deviating expectations in different funding initiatives of the Sustainability Subdepartment
9.2 Policy expectations and mode of science
9.3 High expectations, low conceptualisation
10 Policy effects – coining realities
10.1 Effects of policy on projects: Monitoring as a strategy for stabilizing discourse
10.2 Projects between the influence of policy and rooms of adaptation
10.3 Project practice: Subversion or compliance?
11 Conclusions
11.1 Discourse stability and discourse change
11.2 The BMBF’s sustainability concept vs. global sustainable development
11.3 Global development as opportunity for German science policy
11.4 Further research questions
Appendices
Appendix A-1: Overview of data collected in interviews and from participant observation
Appendix A-2: Overview of interview partners
Appendix A-3: Example of guidelines used for a semistructured interview
Appendix A-4: Example of coverpage and first page of transcription of a semi-structured interview
Appendix A-5: Exemplary page of fieldnotes
Appendix A-6: Extract from list of codes
Appendix B-1: Developing countries and emerging economies with bilateral science, technology and innovation cooperation agreements with Germany
Appendix B-2: Overview of main BMBF funding measures for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies
Appendix B-3a: Overview over types of applied project outcomes in the IWRM funding priority
Appendix B-3b: Overview over types of applied project outcomes in the Megacities funding initiative
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