State of the art

Andrew Webster

Policy Studies, 2004, vol. 25, issue 1, 5-18

Abstract: This article provides a review of recent work in social science exploring the meaning of risk in contemporary society and its relation to science and science policy-making. The article argues that we have seen a reflexive turn in policy-making though this is limited and yet to fully embrace the discourse of uncertainty and lay engagement with science that will be required for a more socially robust and legitimated management of risks. It locates risk in a wider political culture and calls for new research that adopts a more sophisticated approach to the social framing of the science–risk–policy nexus.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1080/0144287042000208206

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