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Democratic Theory and Citizen Participation: democracy models in the evaluation of public participation in science and technology
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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’ ... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Wissenschaft; technischer Fortschritt; Technikfolgenabschätzung; direkte Demokratie; Technologie; politische Partizipation; repräsentative Demokratie; technische Entwicklung; Bürgerbeteiligung; Partizipation; Governance; Demokratieverständnis; internationaler Vergleich
Klassifikation
Technikfolgenabschätzung
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Demokratietherorie; Participation; Participatory Technology Assessment
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2011
Seitenangabe
S. 589-598
Zeitschriftentitel
Science and Public Policy, 38 (2011) 8
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3152/030234211X13092649606404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)