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Scientific expertise and public policy: resolving paradoxes?

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  • M R Rutgers
  • M A Mentzel

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There seems to be a legitimisation crisis for both the scientific expert and the policy-maker that arises out of their interaction. The authors in this special issue acknowledge the reality of the paradox of the simultaneous inflationary use of scientific advice and its politicisation. They also regard the paradox as being resolvable. The authority of science is valuable and should somehow be re-established, either at a different level, or by reconstructing the relationship between science and politics. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • M R Rutgers & M A Mentzel, 1999. "Scientific expertise and public policy: resolving paradoxes?," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 26(3), pages 146-150, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:26:y:1999:i:3:p:146-150
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    1. Jarle Trondal & Zuzana Murdoch & Benny Geys, 2015. "Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 3(1), pages 26-36.
    2. Johan Eriksson & Mikael Karlsson & Marta Reuter, 2010. "Technocracy, Politicization, and Noninvolvement: Politics of Expertise in the European Regulation of Chemicals," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 27(2), pages 167-185, March.
    3. Chou, Kuei Tien, 2013. "The public perception of climate change in Taiwan and its paradigm shift," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 1252-1260.

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