Replicating participatory devices: the consensus conference confronts nanotechnology

Brice Laurent
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Brice Laurent: Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Mines ParisTech

No 18, CSI Working Papers Series from Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), Mines ParisTech

Abstract: Describes two examples (in France and in the US) of replication of the Danish procedure of the consensus conference for public participation in nanotechnology, and argues that emphasis on the evaluation of the participatory procedure should not be made at the expense of richer analysis of the problematisation of public participation fostered by such policy instruments.

Keywords: Science and technology studies; public participation; consensus conferences; democracy; controversies; political sociology; nanotechnology; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D70 D74 O30 O33 Q55 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2009-12
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