Scientific expertise and public policy: resolving paradoxes?

M R Rutgers and M A Mentzel

Science and Public Policy, 1999, vol. 26, issue 3, 146-150

Abstract: There seems to be a legitimisation crisis for both the scientific expert and the policy-maker that arises out of their interaction. The authors in this special issue acknowledge the reality of the paradox of the simultaneous inflationary use of scientific advice and its politicisation. They also regard the paradox as being resolvable. The authority of science is valuable and should somehow be re-established, either at a different level, or by reconstructing the relationship between science and politics. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 1999
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