Format:
XIX, 381 S.
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graph. Darst.
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a
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
9780521177153
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9781107003705
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0521177154
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1107003709
Content:
"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"--
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Enth. 20 Beitr
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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?
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II.Collegial Science Advisory Bodies:5.Knowledge, advice and influence: the role of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 1970-2009
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III.Collegial Science Policy Advisory Bodies:8.RMNO and quality control of scientific advice to policy
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IV.Research-Based Advisory Organizations:10.The industrial organisation of economic policy preparation in The Netherlands
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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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe The politics of scientific advice Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011 ISBN 9781107003705
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1107003709
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521177153
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521177154
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. bei Cambridge The politics of scientific advice Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011 ISBN 1107003709
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107003705
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521177154
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521177153
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Politikberatung
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Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/642951160.pdf
Author information:
Weingart, Peter 1941-
Author information:
Lentsch, Justus 1968-
