Making pure science and pure politics: On the expertise of bypass and the bypass of expertise

Science Technology and Human Values

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 529-553

  Konopásek, Zdeněk ^a,b   Stöckelová, Tereza ^a   Zamykalová, Lenka ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Czech Republic; Expertise; Highway bypass; Politics; Purification

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949107494     PISSN: 01622439     EISSN: 15528251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0162243907306699     Document Type: Article

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