Policy legitimacy, science and political authority : Knowledge and action in liberal democracies / edited by Michael Heazle and John Kane
Imprint
London : Routledge, 2019
Descript
xiii, 212 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
SUMMARY
Introduction : Good Public Policy : On the Interaction of Political and Expert Authority / Michael Heazle, John Kane and Haig Patapan -- The Undead Linear Model of Expertise / Darrin Durant -- Intelligence and the Use of Armed Force / Paul R. Pillar -- The Long Goodbye : Science and Policy Making in the International Whaling Commission / Michael Heazle -- On the Interdependency of Political Authority and Economic Expertise / John Kane -- Uneasy Expertise : Geoengineering, Social Science, and Democracy in the Anthropocene / Clare Heyward and Steve Rayner -- Democratic and Expert Authority in Public and Environmental Health Policy / David Kriebel and Daniel Sarewitz -- In Search of Certainty : How Political Authority and Scientific Authority Interact in Japan's Nuclear Restart Process / Paul J. Scalise -- Drifting to New Worlds : On Politics and Science in Modern Biotechnology / Haig Patapan -- Conclusion : A Democratic Tension? / Michael Heazle and John Kane
CONTENT
Good Public Policy: on the interaction of political and expert authority -- The undead linear model of expertise -- Intelligence and the use of armed force -- The long goodbye: science and policy making in the international whaling commission -- On the interdependency of political authority and economic expertise -- Uneasy Expertise: geoengineering, social science, and democracy in the anthropocene -- Democratic and expert authority in public and environmental health policy -- In search of certainty: how political authority and scientific authority interact in Japan's nuclear restart process -- Drifting to new worlds : On politics and science in modern biotechnology -- Conclusion: a democratic tension?
