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Autore: |
Brown Mark B
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Titolo: |
Science in democracy : expertise, institutions, and representation / / Mark B. Brown
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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.: | 9910808824403321 |
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