The politics of scientific advice: institutional design for quality assurance

Controversies over issues such as genetically engineered food, foot-and-mouth disease and the failure of risk models in the global financial crisis have raised concerns about the quality of expert scientific advice. The legitimacy of experts, and of the political decision-makers and policy-makers wh...

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Other Authors: Lentsch, Justus 1968- (Editor), Weingart, Peter 1941- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne ; Madrid ; Cape Town ; Singapore ; São Paulo ; Delhi ; Tokyo ; Mexiko City Cambridge University Press 2011
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511777141
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511777141
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511777141
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511777141
Summary:Controversies over issues such as genetically engineered food, foot-and-mouth disease and the failure of risk models in the global financial crisis have raised concerns about the quality of expert scientific advice. The legitimacy of experts, and of the political decision-makers and policy-makers whom they advise, essentially depends on the quality of the advice. But what does quality mean in this context, and how can it be achieved? This volume argues that the quality of scientific advice can be ensured by an appropriate institutional design of advisory organisations. Using examples from a wide range of international case studies, including think tanks, governmental research institutes, agencies and academies, the authors provide a systematic guide to the major problems and pitfalls encountered in scientific advice and the means by which organisations around the world have solved these problems
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 381 Seiten) Diagramme
ISBN:9780511777141
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511777141

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