Quality control in the advisory process: Towards an institutional design for robust science advice

The Politics of Scientific Advice: Institutional Design for Quality Assurance

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 353-374

  Lentsch, Justus ^a   Weingart, Peter ^b  

^a Heinrich Boll Foundation   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873266249     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511777141.020     Document Type: Chapter

References (26)

1. Bijker, Wiebe E., Bal, Roland and Hendriks, Ruud 2009. The Paradox of Scientific Authority: The Role of Scientific Advice in Democracies, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2. Brown, Mark B. 2006. 'Fairly balanced: The politics of representation on government advisory committees,' Political Research Quarterly 61/4: 547-60.
3. Brown, Mark B. 2009. 'Federal Advisory Committees in the United States: A Survey of the Political and Administrative Landscape,' in Justus Lentsch and Peter Weingart (eds.), Scientific Advice to Policy Making: International Comparison, Opladen & Farmington Hills: Barbara Budrich Publishers.
4. Buchholz, Kai 2008. Professionalisierung der wissenschaftlichen Politikberatung? Interaktions-und professionssoziologische Perspektiven, Bielefeld: Transcript.
5. Ezrahi, Yaron 1980. 'Utopian and pragmatic rationalism: The political context of scientific advice,' Minerva 18: 111-31.
6. Feuer, Michael J. and Maranto, Christina J. 2010. 'Science advice as procedural rationality: reflections on the National Research Council,' Minerva 48: 259-75.
7. Funtowicz, S. O. and Ravetz, J. R. 1990. Uncertainty and Quality in Science for Policy, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
8. Gieryn, Thomas F. 1983. 'Boundary-work and the demarcation of science from non-science: Strains and interests in professional ideologies of scientists,' American Sociological Review 48: 781-95.
9. Gieryn, Thomas F. 1995. 'Boundaries of science,' in S. Jasanoff, G. E. Markle, J. C. Petersen and T. Pinch (eds.), Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Thousand Oaks, London and New Delhi: Sage, pp. 393-443.
10. Guston, David H. 2005. 'Institutional design for socially robust knowledge: The national toxicology program's report on carcinogens,' in Sabine Maasen and Peter Weingart (eds.), Democratization of Expertise? Exploring Novel Forms of Scientific Advice in Political Decision-Making, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 63-80.
11. Hilgartner, Stephen 2000. Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama, Stanford University Press.
12. Jasanoff, Sheila 1985. 'Peer review in the regulatory process,' Science, Technology, & Human Values 10/3: 20-32.
13. Jasanoff, Sheila 1990. The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
14. Jasanoff, Sheila 2004. 'The idiom of co-production,' in Sheila Jasanoff (ed.), States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and Social Order, London: Routledge, pp. 1-12.
15. Krimsky, Sheldon 2006. 'Publication bias, data ownership, and the funding effect in science: Threats to the integrity of biomedical research,' in Wendy Wagner and Rena Steinzor (eds.), Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research, Cambridge University Press, pp. 61-85.
16. Lentsch, Justus 2008. 'Qualitätssicherung in der wissenschaftlichen Politikberatung,' in Stephan Böchler and Rainer Schützeichel (eds.), Politikberatung, Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius, pp. 194-216.
17. Mitchell, Sandra D. 2009. Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity, and Policy, University of Chicago Press.
18. National Research Council (NRC) 2002. Knowledge and Diplomacy: Science Advice in the United Nations System, Washington DC: National Academies Press.
19. O'Neill, Sarah 2006. 'Transparency and the ethics of communication,' British Academy Lectures 125: 75-90.
20. Pielke, Roger S., Jr. 2007. The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics, Cambridge University Press.
21. Renn, Ortwin 2008. Risk Governance: Coping With Uncertainty in a Complex World, London: Earthscan, Sterling.
22. Shrader-Frechette, Kristin 2005. 'Radiobiology and gray science: Flaws in landmark new radiation protections,' Science and Engineering Ethics 11/2: 167-9.
23. Siebenhüner, Bernd 2002. 'How do scientific assessments learn? Part I: Conceptual framework and case-study of the IPCC,' Environmental Science & Policy 5: 411-20.
24. Wagner, Wendy and Steinzor, Rena 2006. 'Conclusion: The imperatives of the principles,' in Wendy Wagner and Rena Steinzor (eds.), Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research, Cambridge University Press, pp. 281-98.
25. Weingart, Peter and Lentsch, Justus 2008. Wissen-Beraten-Entscheiden. Form und Funktion wissenschaftlicher Politikberatung in Deutschland, Weilerswist: Velbrück.
26. Wynne, Brian, Felt, Ulrike, Eduarda Gonçalves, Maria, Jasanoff, Sheila, Jepsen, Maria, Joly, Pierre-Benoît, Konopasek, Zdenck et al. 2007. Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously, Brussels: European Commission.