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The UK BSE crisis: Strengths and weaknesses of existing conceptual approaches

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The UK media have paid much more attention to the BSE crisis than have social scientists. Yet, the BSE saga is one of the best opportunities we have to explore the link between science and politics. An attempt must therefore be made to evaluate whether satisfactory explanations of the crisis have been proposed by social scientists. The present paper is a review of the three explanations or lines of argument that can be extracted from existing studies of the BSE crisis. The strengths and weaknesses of the three lines of argument are then indicated. Finally, a new perspective for the analysis of the BSE crisis is outlined, which is rooted in the analysis of scientific discourse. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Eve Seguin, 2000. "The UK BSE crisis: Strengths and weaknesses of existing conceptual approaches," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 27(4), pages 293-301, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:27:y:2000:i:4:p:293-301
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    1. Luigi Pellizzoni, 2003. "Uncertainty and Participatory Democracy," Environmental Values, , vol. 12(2), pages 195-224, May.
    2. Mercedes Bleda & Simon Shackley, 2012. "Simulation Modelling as a Theory Building Tool: The Formation of Risk Perceptions," Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 15(2), pages 1-2.
    3. Hosein, Ian & Whitley, Edgar A., 2002. "The regulation of electronic commerce : learning from the UK's RIP act," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 271, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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