Policy Legitimacy, Science and Political Authority: Knowledge and Action in Liberal Democracies

ISBN-13: 9780367332761 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 216 str.

Michael Heazle; John Kane

Opis

This book examines the tensions between political authority and expert authority in the formation of public policy in liberal democracies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Good Public Policy — On the Interaction of Political and Expert Authority  2. The Undead Linear Model of Expertise  3. Intelligence and the Use of Armed Force  4. The Long Goodbye: Science and Policy Making in the International Whaling Commission  5. On the Interdependency of Political Authority and Economic Expertise  6. Uneasy Expertise: Geoengineering, Social Science, and Democracy in the Anthropocene  7. Democratic and Expert Authority in Public and Environmental Health Policy  8. In Search of Certainty: How Political Authority and Scientific Authority Interact in　Japan’s Nuclear Restart Process  9. Drifting to New Worlds: On Politics and Science in Modern Biotechnology  10. Conclusion: A Democratic Tension?