The politics of expert advice : creating, using and manipulating scientific knowledge for public policy / edited by Anthony Barker and B. Guy Peters.
1993
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Title
The politics of expert advice : creating, using and manipulating scientific knowledge for public policy / edited by Anthony Barker and B. Guy Peters.
Published
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1993]
Copyright
©1993
Call Number
H97 .P65 1993
ISBN
082291171X
0822960982 (pbk.)
0822960982 (pbk.)
Description
x, 129 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)28446913
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1
Introduction: Science Policy and Government / Anthony Barker B. Guy Peters
1
2
Sources of Technological Controversy: Proximity To or Alienation From Technology? / Wolfgang Rudig
17
3
Chernobyl Comes to Italy: The Reciprocal Relationships of Radiation Experts, Government Policies and the Mass Media / Angela Liberatore
33
4
'Expert' and 'Political' Elements in Official Scientific Advice on Swiss Nuclear Power / Christine Mironesco
49
5
Controversy and Authority in British Official Scientific Advice on Radiation: The Black Report on Sellafield and Children's Leukaemias / Sally Macgill
61
6
Advice, Legitimacy and Nuclear Safety in Britain / Michael Saward
73
7
The State as a Blind Investor in Fundamental Research: Advice to the French and Other Governments on the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility / Jean Tournon
91
8
Conclusion: Science, Public Policy and the Authoritativeness of the Governmental Process / Richard Topf
103
Note on Advising West European Governments: Inquiries, Expertise and Public Policy
119
Index of names
123
Subject index
127