Revealing a paradox in scientific advice to governments: the struggle between modernist and reflexive logics within the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

摘要: While governmental scientific advisers attempt to innovate their practices become more reflexive and interactive, they cannot escape the modernist fundaments that constitute these practices. How do make sense of this paradoxical situation? Using transition process in PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency as a paradigmatic case, article explores how four actor groups—the management team, clients, practitioners external peers—involved PBL’s disclose views on institutional redesign and, while doing that, express beliefs what think advice “is” “should do”. Frame analysis identifies three coexisting frames (future) role identity—PBL integrated assessment specialist, tank trustworthy expert. Implicated are “professional culture humility” seem replace “science speaking truth power” mode advising organization. At same time science/politics demarcation, objectivity privilege persist, part by revisiting them view newly found principles humility, transparency deliberation. In conclusion, empirical work illustrates questioning deliberating about identity one’s own organization is first step advance governments. The challenge for science “translate” processes into concrete social cultural changes, bringing transformation conceptions should all along. This published thematic collection