Democratic Theory and Citizen Participation: democracy models in the evaluation of public participation in science and technology
| Titel: | Democratic Theory and Citizen Participation: democracy models in the evaluation of public participation in science and technology |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Mannheim : SSOAR, 2011 |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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begutachtet (peer reviewed) In: Science and Public Policy ; 38 (2011) 8 ; 589-598 |
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Abstract: We argue that some of the controversies over the democratic merits of (participatory) technology assessment can be traced to conflicting assumptions about what constitutes a legitimate democratic procedure. We compare how two influential normative models of democracy – ‘representative’ and ‘direct’ – value public engagement processes according to different criteria. Criteria drawn from this analysis are used to compare a series of case studies on xenotransplantation policy-making. We show that the democratic merits of participatory technology assessments probably owe as much to the institutional context as to the precise evaluative criteria or procedural designs. This calls for a closer interaction between science and technology studies research on public engagement and comparative politics scholarship |
