 Science and public participation in regulating genetically-engineered food: Franch an American experiencesDiabanna L. Post and Jérôme M. Da Ros Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales, 2003, vol. 68-69, 75-101 Abstract: This paper describes three cases of government-led efforts in France and the United States to bring stakeholders into the regulatory process for genetically-modified food. We analyze how government regulators, scientists, and members of the public interacted in these three different settings, and conclude that public participation is not linked with a regulatory outcome; in other words, for various reasons which we consider, public participation did not have a substantive impact on government policies in this area. We consider how these processes could be improved, by drawing on two distinct literatures — social studies of science and organization theory. A more conscious crossfertilization of the two literatures would shed some insights broadly on science and public organizations, and particularly on the problem of regulating a complex and uncertain area of technology. Keywords: food safety; regulation; public organizations; science studies; genetically-engineered food (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rae:jouces:v:68-69:y:2003:p:75-101 Access Statistics for this article Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales is currently edited by Julien Salanié More articles in Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales from INRA Department of Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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