{"556081":{"#nid":"556081","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"\u0027The Politics of Innovation\u0027","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMark Zachary Taylor, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs was featured in\u0026nbsp;\u201c\u2018The Politics of Innovation,\u2019\u201d in a feature about his new book of the same name.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe subtitle of Mark Zachary Taylor\u2019s new book,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Politics of Innovation\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-politics-of-innovation-9780190464134?cc=us\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOxford University Press\u003C\/a\u003E), asks why some countries are better than others at science and technology. He argues that the answer lies in politics and proposes a theory of \u201ccreative insecurity,\u201d arguing that innovation rates should be higher in countries in which external threats outweigh domestic tensions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cS\u0026amp;T progress creates winners and losers, and the losers resort to politics to slow innovation,\u201d Taylor, an associate professor of political science at Georgia Institute of Technology, writes in the book\u2019s introduction. \u201cHowever, external threats increase political support for S\u0026amp;T and thereby counteract domestic political resistance to innovation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou can read the articule in full \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2016\/07\/26\/why-are-some-countries-better-science-and-technology\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"32716","created_gmt":"2016-07-27 10:11:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:16","author":"Hayden Russell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"krystina madej","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2016\/07\/26\/why-are-some-countries-better-science-and-technology","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"405931":{"id":"405931","type":"image","title":"Mark Zachary Taylor","body":null,"created":"1449254153","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:53","changed":"1538407043","gmt_changed":"2018-10-01 15:17:23","alt":"Portrait photo of Mark Zachary Taylor","file":{"fid":"76118","name":"markzacharytaylorweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/markzacharytaylorweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/markzacharytaylorweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":46986,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/markzacharytaylorweb.jpg?itok=ATipaA6P"}}},"media_ids":["405931"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"48991","name":"Mark Zachary Taylor"},{"id":"167256","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}