Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
Democratic Theory and Citizen Participation: democracy models in the evaluation of public participation in science and technology
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.
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Seite(n): 589-598
- Language
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Englisch
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Bibliographic citation
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Science and Public Policy, 38(8)
- Subject
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Technik, Technologie
Politikwissenschaft
Technikfolgenabschätzung
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Wissenschaft
technischer Fortschritt
Technikfolgenabschätzung
direkte Demokratie
Technologie
politische Partizipation
repräsentative Demokratie
technische Entwicklung
Bürgerbeteiligung
Partizipation
Governance
Demokratieverständnis
internationaler Vergleich
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Biegelbauer, Peter
Hansen, Janus
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Veröffentlichung
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Vereinigtes Königreich
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2011
- DOI
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-320110
- Rights
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST
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Object type
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Associated
- Biegelbauer, Peter
- Hansen, Janus
Time of origin
- 2011