Science In Democracy Expertise Institutions And Representation Mark B Brown by Mark B. Brown 9780262013246, 026201324X instant download after payment.

Public controversies over issues ranging from global warming to biotechnology havepoliticized scientific expertise and research. Some respond with calls for restoring a golden age ofvalue-free science. More promising efforts seek to democratize science. But what does that mean? Canit go beyond the typical focus on public participation? How does the politics of science challengeprevailing views of democracy? In Science in Democracy, Mark Brown draws on science and technologystudies, democratic theory, and the history of political thought to show why an adequate response topoliticized science depends on rethinking both science and democracy. Brownenlists such canonical and contemporary thinkers as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Dewey, and Latourto argue that the familiar dichotomy between politics and science reinforces a similar dichotomybetween direct democracy and representative government. He then develops an alternative perspectivebased on the mutual shaping of participation and representation in both science and politics.Political representation requires scientific expertise, and scientific institutions may become sitesof political representation. Brown illustrates his argument with examples from expert advisorycommittees, bioethics councils, and lay forums. Different institutional venues, he shows, mediatedifferent elements of democratic representation. If we understand democracy as an institutionallydistributed process of collective representation, Brown argues, it becomes easier to see thepoliticization of science not as a threat to democracy but as an opportunity forit.The hardcover edition does not include a dust jacket.
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