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Lentsch, Justus & Weingart, Peter (eds.)
Scientific Advice to Policy Making
International Comparison
978-3-86649-176-2
Year of publication: 6/2009
164 Pages
Language:
16,90 €

Type of publication: Book paperback
Categories:  > Basic reading
> Discourse
> Research


Are there connections between the structures of political systems and types of scientific advice to policymaking? This volume unites case studies from the Netherlands, France, the European Union and the USA that provide an overview of different institutional arrangements, focusing on issues such as the independence and balance of advice. Common to all is the question which forms of advice can increase the rationality of policymaking without loss of political legitimacy.

 

From the Contents:

 

Scientific Advice to Policy Making in Comparative Perspective:
Technocracy Revisited – Introduction

Justus Lentsch/Peter Weingart

 

Federal Advisory Committees in the  United States:
A Survey of the Political  and Administrative Landscape

Mark B. Brown

 

Measuring the Stakes: The Dutch Planning Bureaus

Willem Halffman

 

The Scientific Council for Government Policy:
Between Science, Policy and More

Paul den Hoed/Anne-Greet Keizer

 

Scientific Expertise in Policy-Making.
The Case of Work Policy in France

Laurent Geffroy/Odile Piriou/Bénédicte Zimmermann

 

Beyond the French ›Technocratic Regime‹? Transformations
of the Use of Scientific Expertise for Public Decisions

Pierre-Benoît Joly

 

Standards of Scientific Advice. Risk Analysis and
the Formation of the European Food Safety Authority

David Demortain

 

 

The editors:

Dr. Justus Lentsch

Prof. Dr. Peter Weingart, Director

both: Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT), Bielefeld University, Germany