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来源类型 | Article |
规范类型 | 其他 |
DOI | 10.3152/147154301781781543 |
ISBN | 03023427 |
The politics of expert advice: lessons from the early history of the BSE saga. | |
Millstone, E; Van Zwanenberg, P | |
发表日期 | 2001-04 |
出处 | Science and Public Policy |
出版年 | 2001 |
页码 | 99-112 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | This paper analyses the dynamics of the interactions between scientific and non-scientific considerations in providing scientific advice to policy, focusing on the first scientific committee to advise on BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) policy-making in the UK and the political and social roles it was expected to play, and in practice played, in policy-making. The paper argues that the Committee was both deliberately and inadvertently utilised to provide spurious scientific legitimation for policy decisions which government officials believed ministers, other government departments, the meat industry and the general public might not otherwise accept. It demonstrates how those social roles rendered the spectrum of policy choices available on BSE opaque, allowed officials to undermine the democratic accountability of ministers, and contributed to making a very serious problem considerably worse. Some practical lessons are outlined for the organisation of scientific expertise in political affairs. |
URL | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/29062/ |
来源智库 | Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom) |
引用统计 | |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/466978 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Millstone, E,Van Zwanenberg, P. The politics of expert advice: lessons from the early history of the BSE saga.. 2001. |
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