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Lay Public or Experts? e‐Participation in Authorization for GMO Products in the European Union

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  • Maria Paola Ferretti
  • Matteo Lener

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In the European Union, for the first time, lay people can participate directly in the procedure of assessment of GMO (genetically modified organisms) products, an exercise normally reserved for scientists and legal experts. What makes this a unique strategy of participation is that for each single application for authorization, lay people have the opportunity to express their views. This article presents the result of the first in‐depth analysis of this type of Internet participatory exercise in the first years of its implementation. It shows that, despite generally participatory technology assessment aims at deliberative consensus on technical questions, this forum is instead a way to expose the work of regulative authorities to public scrutiny and to express dissent and opposition to the European Commission policy on GMOs.

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  • Maria Paola Ferretti & Matteo Lener, 2008. "Lay Public or Experts? e‐Participation in Authorization for GMO Products in the European Union," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 25(6), pages 507-525, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:25:y:2008:i:6:p:507-525
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2008.00359.x
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    1. Kelley, Jonathan, 2014. "Beware of feedback effects among trust, risk and public opinion: Quantitative estimates of rational versus emotional influences on attitudes toward genetic modification," MPRA Paper 60585, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Idunn Nørbech, 2024. "Does policy context matter for citizen engagement in policymaking? Evidence from the European Commission's public consultation regime," European Union Politics, , vol. 25(1), pages 130-150, March.
    3. Rodekamp, Meike, 2010. "Representatives or experts? Civil society organizations in the EU's external relations," TranState Working Papers 137, University of Bremen, Collaborative Research Center 597: Transformations of the State.

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