Public Knowledge and Environmental Politics in Japan and the United States

ISBN-13: 9780367300166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 229 str.

John C. Pierce; Nicholas P. Lovrich; Taketsugu Tsurutani

Opis

This book grows out of the authors' conviction that as public policy issues become suffused with scientific and technical content, they become difficult for the democratic citizens to understand. It attempts to determine mass public capacity and their motivation to respond to the challenges.

Spis treści

Preface -- Knowledge: The Missing Link -- The Distribution of Knowledge -- Background Sources of Knowledge -- Motivation and Knowledge -- Knowledge and Beliefs About the Future -- Knowledge and Policy Preferences -- Knowledge and Power -- Knowledge and the Possibility of Democracy