ISBN:
9781529222159
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (183 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.483
Abstract:
An invaluable resource to help understand the role of scientific knowledge in governance, societal developments and democracy, this accessible book introduces students to perspectives from the field of science and technology studies.
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Science and Democracy: A Science and Technology Studies Approach -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Best Knowledge and the Best Mode of Governance -- Introduction -- Science and democracy as representation -- Science -- Democracy -- Political complexity and technoscience -- From complexity to over- simplification -- Post- truth and STS -- Participation and STS -- The structure of the book -- PART I Separation -- 2 Science and Politics as Separate Domains -- Introduction -- Societal development as increased differentiation -- Autonomous institutions -- Plato's cave and Latour's two chambers -- Delegative democracy -- Conclusions -- 3 The Relationship between Science and Politics -- Introduction -- Scientific consensus and autonomous experts -- The linear model -- The deficit model -- Beyond technocracy and decisionism -- Political experts -- The third wave of STS -- Conclusions -- PART II Overlap -- 4 Close but Not Too Close -- Introduction -- Research policy and the social contract between state and research -- From science to expertise and advice -- Useful knowledge -- Scientific experts -- The research policy landscape -- The distance -- The direction -- Boundary work and boundary organizations -- Hybridization -- Conclusions -- PART III Co-production -- 5 Co-production of Scientific Knowledge and Societal Order -- Introduction -- Co-production -- Hybrid forums and technical democracy -- Reflexive experts -- Politicization of expertise -- Conclusions -- 6 Participation as Co-production -- Introduction -- Why participation? -- Listening to the public -- Invited and uninvited publics -- Organizing participation -- How the EU Water Framework Directive has been applied -- Public engagement on GM crops -- The climate issue and approaches targeting consumption -- The conditions for citizen participation.
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URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781529222159/type/BOOK
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