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Impact Assessment And Democratic Politics

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The advent of impact assessment as a tool of policy is the latest chapter in our understanding of the relationship between science and politics. As such, it presents at least two challenges to democratic politics. Given its emphasis on appropriate procedural character of conteniporary democratic systems. And by raising the value of technical and scientific information in environmental disputes, impact assessment poses a challenge to existing concepts of popular sovereignty, based as they are on interest and preference rather than knowledge. These challenges, however, do not rep‐ resent irreconcilable differences. Although there may be an inherent ten‐ sion between impact assessment and democratic politics, there are also areas of affinity between the two. And we are destined to accept and adapt to this tension because, in fact, understanding is one of our principal defenses against tyranny.

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  • Walter F. Baber, 1988. "Impact Assessment And Democratic Politics," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 8(1), pages 172-178, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:8:y:1988:i:1:p:172-178
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1988.tb00927.x
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    1. Brown, Judy, 2009. "Democracy, sustainability and dialogic accounting technologies: Taking pluralism seriously," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 20(3), pages 313-342.

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