Politics of Scientific Advice (eBook, PDF)

Institutional Design for Quality Assurance
Redaktion: Lentsch, Justus

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Controversies over issues such as genetically engineered food, foot-and-mouth disease and the failure of risk models in the global financial crisis have raised concerns about the quality of expert scientific advice. The legitimacy of experts, and of the political decision-makers and policy-makers whom they advise, essentially depends on the quality of the advice. But what does quality mean in this context, and how can it be achieved? This volume argues that the quality of scientific advice can be ensured by an appropriate institutional design of advisory organisations. Using examples from a wide range of international case studies, including think tanks, governmental research institutes, agencies and academies, the authors provide a systematic guide to the major problems and pitfalls encountered in scientific advice and the means by which organisations around the world have solved these problems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139098212
• Artikelnr.: 38280188

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Methodological Issues. Quality Control and Assurance in Scientific
Policy Advice: 1. Introduction: the quest for quality as a challenge to
scientific policy advice: an overdue debate? Justus Lentsch and Peter
Weingart; 2. Quality control and peer review in advisory science Sheila
Jasanoff; 3. Reconciling representation with reality: unitisation as an
example for science and public policy Naomi Oreskes; 4. Looking for quality
in all the wrong places: or the technological origins of quality in
scientific policy advice Daniel Sarewitz; Part II. Collegial Science
Advisory Bodies: 5. Knowledge, advice and influence: the role of the UK
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 1970-2009 Susan Owens; 6.
International Commission on Radiological Protection: policy and worldwide
standards Christian Streffer; 7. The European Commission and the collection
and use of science and technology advice Michael D. Rogers; Part III.
Collegial Science Policy Advisory Bodies: 8. RMNO and quality control of
scientific advice to policy Bert de Wit; 9. Quality assurance through
procedures: policy advice by the German Science Council Andreas Stucke;
Part IV. Research-Based Advisory Organizations: 10. The industrial
organisation of economic policy preparation in The Netherlands Frank A. G.
den Butter; 11. Quality control for the leading institutes of economic
research in Germany: promoting quality within and competition between the
institutes Gert G. Wagner; 12. Quality control and the link between science
and regulation from a national and EU administrator's perspective Geoffrey
Podger; 13. Science into policy: the European Environment Agency Sven
Dammann and David Gee; 14. Reflective approaches to uncertainty assessment
and communication Jeroen P. van der Sluijs, Arthur Petersen and Silvio
Funtowicz; 15. Looking through the telescope: quality assurance in
scientific advice to politics Reinhard Kurth and Susanne Glasmacher; 16.
Scientific policy advice and foreign policymaking: Stiftung Wissenschaft
und Politik, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Volker Perthes; Part V. Academies of Science: 17. Scientific advice for
policy in the United States: lessons from the National Academies and the
former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment Peter D. Blair; 18.
Quality control in scientific policy advice: the experience of the Royal
Society Peter Collins; 19. European Academies Science Advisory Council
Robin Fears and Volker ter Meulen; 20. Quality control in the advisory
process: towards an institutional design for robust science advice Justus
Lentsch and Peter Weingart.