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Science in democracy : expertise, institutions, and representation / Mark B. Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Mark B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Political aspects.
- Science.
- Science and state.
- Science and state--Citizen participation.
- Representative government and representation.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (371 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-25805-6
- 1-282-69434-0
- 9786612694349
- 0-262-25864-1
- OCLC:
- 459794767
- Publisher Number:
- 9786612694349
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