Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation

摘要: Public controversies over issues ranging from global warming to biotechnology have politicized scientific expertise and research. Some respond with calls for restoring a golden age of value-free science. More promising efforts seek democratize But what does that mean? Can it go beyond the typical focus on public participation? How politics science challenge prevailing views democracy? In Science in Democracy, Mark Brown draws technology studies, democratic theory, history political thought show why an adequate response depends rethinking both democracy. enlists such canonical contemporary thinkers as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Dewey, Latour argue familiar dichotomy between reinforces similar direct democracy representative government. He then develops alternative perspective based mutual shaping participation representation politics. Political requires expertise, institutions may become sites representation. illustrates his argument examples expert advisory committees, bioethics councils, lay forums. Different institutional venues, he shows, mediate different elements If we understand institutionally distributed process collective representation, argues, becomes easier see politicization not threat but opportunity it.