Who Sets the Intellectual Agenda? Foreign Funding and Social Science in Peru
43 Pages Posted: 25 Sep 2013 Last revised: 8 Oct 2013
Date Written: September 24, 2013
Abstract
This article explores the political economy of social science research in the Global South by analyzing new bibliometric and survey data on Peru, a lower-middle income country with weak domestic funding and institutional support for scholarship. The results of the analysis show that although research in Peru is heavily dependent on foreign funding, the multiplicity of funding institutions gives scholars a surprising degree of autonomy. Still, dependence on foreign funding produces conditions with potentially harmful consequences for the quality and impact of research. Five conditions are considered: multiple institutional affiliations, hyperproductivity, forced interdisciplinarity, parochialism, and a weak national community of scholars.
Keywords: political economy, social science research, Peru, Global South, foreign funding
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