In recent years, British science policy has seen a significant shift ‘from deficit to dialogue’ in conceptualizing the relationship between science and the public. Academics in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) have been influential as advocates of the new public engagement agenda. However, this participatory agenda has deeper roots in the political ideology of the Third Way. A framing of participation as a politics suited to post-Fordist conditions was put forward in the magazine Marxism Today in the late 1980s, developed in the Demos thinktank in the 1990s, and influenced policy of the New Labour government. The encouragement of public participation and deliberation in relation to science and technology h...
International audiencePhilosophers of science have recently called for the abandonment of the tradit...
In this article, the author, after describing the tech-nocratic nature of the current science policy...
A number of researchers have been analysing apparent shifts from top-down approaches to public engag...
Two-way public engagement with science is an important modern democratic practice that paradoxically...
This paper examines the way in which innovation in science policy in the UK over the last 25 years h...
Changing relations between science and democracy – and controversies over issues such as climate cha...
Changing relations between science and democracy – and controversies over issues such as climate cha...
This contribution puts the spotlight on participation of heterogeneous actors and diverse forms of e...
Public participation has become something of a phenomenon in science and technology public policy- a...
Changing relations between science and democracy – and controversies over issues like climate change...
Over the past few decades, significant advances have been made in public engagement with, and the de...
In the UK public dialogue is championed in a number of policy areas as a new social space in which c...
The current conception of political participation in governmental institutions is deeply marked by t...
Since the late twentieth century, “citizen science” has become an increasingly fashionable lab...
The idea that increasing participation leads to wider debate, deeper scrutiny and more robust decisi...
International audiencePhilosophers of science have recently called for the abandonment of the tradit...
In this article, the author, after describing the tech-nocratic nature of the current science policy...
A number of researchers have been analysing apparent shifts from top-down approaches to public engag...
Two-way public engagement with science is an important modern democratic practice that paradoxically...
This paper examines the way in which innovation in science policy in the UK over the last 25 years h...
Changing relations between science and democracy – and controversies over issues such as climate cha...
Changing relations between science and democracy – and controversies over issues such as climate cha...
This contribution puts the spotlight on participation of heterogeneous actors and diverse forms of e...
Public participation has become something of a phenomenon in science and technology public policy- a...
Changing relations between science and democracy – and controversies over issues like climate change...
Over the past few decades, significant advances have been made in public engagement with, and the de...
In the UK public dialogue is championed in a number of policy areas as a new social space in which c...
The current conception of political participation in governmental institutions is deeply marked by t...
Since the late twentieth century, “citizen science” has become an increasingly fashionable lab...
The idea that increasing participation leads to wider debate, deeper scrutiny and more robust decisi...
International audiencePhilosophers of science have recently called for the abandonment of the tradit...
In this article, the author, after describing the tech-nocratic nature of the current science policy...
A number of researchers have been analysing apparent shifts from top-down approaches to public engag...