In their expanding roles as advisers, scientists have emerged as a fifth branch of government. But even though the growing dependence of regulatory agencies on scientific and technical information has granted scientists a greater influence on public policy, opinions differ as to how those contributions should be balanced against other policy concerns. Merging legal and institut...
In their expanding roles as advisers, scientists have emerged as a fifth branch of government. But even though the growing dependence of regulatory agencies on scientific and technical information has granted scientists a greater influence on public policy, opinions differ as to how those contributions should be balanced against other policy concerns. Merging legal and institutional analysis with social studies of science, Jasanoff presents a strong case for procedural reforms. In so doing, she articulates a social-construction model that is intended to buttress the effectiveness of the fifth branch.
In recent years, there have been notable advances in our understanding of the social processes by which scientific knowledge is produced and certified as legitimate. We have become aware of the socially constructed nature of scientific reality and of the intermingling of facts and values in disputes arising at the frontiers of science. (查看原文)
at the heart of the book is a critique of two commonly accepted paradigms for controlling the use of science by regulatory agencies: the "technocratic" approach, which looks to scientists as primary validators of policies with high technical content, and the "democratic" approach, which views broad public participation as the antidote to abuses of expert authority. (查看原文)
The oscillation between deference and skepticism towards experts, or in other terms, the oscillation between technocratic and social democratic model of scientific advisory in regulation, had persisted. Jasanoff, by drawing on historical case studies of EPA...
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