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%T Democratic Theory and Citizen Participation: democracy models in the evaluation of public participation in science and technology %A Biegelbauer, Peter %A Hansen, Janus %J Science and Public Policy %N 8 %P 589-598 %V 38 %D 2011 %K Demokratietherorie; Participation; Participatory Technology Assessment %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-320110 %X 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. %C GBR %G en %9 journal article %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info