Policy analysis, science and politics: from ‘speaking truth to power’ to ‘making sense together’

Robert Hoppe

Science and Public Policy, 1999, vol. 26, issue 3, 201-210

Abstract: In an historical overview, this paper links to the paradox that the increasing scientification of politics leads to a politicisation of science. For a long time, scientists offered their capabilities as ‘speaking truth to power’. Since the beginning of the 1990s, this input has been transformed into an argumentative policy analysis. This reinvigorates political prudence as ‘making sense together’. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 1999
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