Science in democracy : expertise, institutions, and representation / / Mark B. Brown

• Autore: Brown Mark B
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (371 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.01
• Soggetto topico: Science - Political aspects; Science and state; Science and state - Citizen participation; Representative government and representation; Democracy
• Soggetto non controllato: SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General; SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Modern politics and the mirror of nature -- Niccolò Machiavelli and the popular politics of expertise -- Power and publicity in modern science -- Consent and competence in representative government -- Liberal rationalism and government advisory committees -- Democratizing representation in science and politics -- Thomas Hobbes and the authorization of science -- John Dewey and the reconstruction of representation -- Bruno Latour and the symmetries of science and politics -- How science becomes political -- Elements of democratic representation -- Institutionalizing democratic representation.
• Sommario/riassunto: Mark Brown draws on canonical & contemporary political & scientific theory, from Machiavelli to Latour, to throw light on how scientific expertise may be brought into a representative democracy.
• Titolo autorizzato: Science in democracy
• ISBN: 0-262-25805-6; 1-282-69434-0; 9786612694349; 0-262-25864-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778556603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II