Public Science In Liberal Democracy

Author : Peter W. B. Phillips,Jene M. Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015073602008

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Public Science in Liberal Democracy by Peter W. B. Phillips,Jene M. Porter Pdf

Regardless of whether science is practised in industry, the academy, or government, its conduct inescapably shapes and is shaped by democratic institutions. Moreover, the involvement of science with public policy formation and democracy has dramatically increased over the centuries and, by all accounts, will continue to do so. In order to understand the functioning of science and democracy, it is necessary to acknowledge the complex relationship between them. Public Science in Liberal Democracy aims to do this from an interdisciplinary perspective, presenting an array of substantively different positions on the issues that it explores. The volume focuses on three major questions: Can science retain independence and objectivity in the face of demands to meet commercial and public policy objectives? In what ways is scientific discourse privileged in the formation of public policy? How can scientific knowledge and methodology be made compatible with the interdisciplinarity and integration required of public policy formation and discourse? Representing a wide range of viewpoints, the contributors to Public Science in Liberal Democracy come from Canada, Europe, the United States, and Australia, and include practising scientists as well as scholars working in the humanities and social sciences. This timely and thought-provoking collection makes an important contribution to the literature and will appeal to anyone interested in scientific research and its political and philosophical ramifications in democratic society.

Author : Michael Heazle,John Kane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317420019

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Policy Legitimacy, Science and Political Authority by Michael Heazle,John Kane Pdf

Voters expect their elected representatives to pursue good policy and presume this will be securely founded on the best available knowledge. Yet when representatives emphasize their reliance on expert knowledge, they seem to defer to people whose authority derives, not politically from the sovereign people, but from the presumed objective status of their disciplinary bases. This book examines the tensions between political authority and expert authority in the formation of public policy in liberal democracies. It aims to illustrate and better understand the nature of these tensions rather than to argue specific ways of resolving them. The various chapters explore the complexity of interaction between the two forms of authority in different policy domains in order to identify both common elements and differences. The policy domains covered include: climate geoengineering discourses; environmental health; biotechnology; nuclear power; whaling; economic management; and the use of force. This volume will appeal to researchers and to convenors of post-graduate courses in the fields of policy studies, foreign policy decision-making, political science, environmental studies, democratic system studies, and science policy studies.

Author : James W. Ceaser
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801845114

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Liberal Democracy and Political Science by James W. Ceaser Pdf

Do political scientists in a liberal democracy bear a special responsibility that goes beyond their academic pursuits? Ceaser, a scholar of American political parties, argues that they do, and he challenges colleagues and students to reexamine what they do as political scientists. He observes that liberal democracy is a compound of two elements not easily wed: constitutionalism and republicanism. The role of political science is to perform the "superintendent" function of keeping these parts together.

Author : Michael Heazle,John Kane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317420026

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Policy Legitimacy, Science and Political Authority by Michael Heazle,John Kane Pdf

Voters expect their elected representatives to pursue good policy and presume this will be securely founded on the best available knowledge. Yet when representatives emphasize their reliance on expert knowledge, they seem to defer to people whose authority derives, not politically from the sovereign people, but from the presumed objective status of their disciplinary bases. This book examines the tensions between political authority and expert authority in the formation of public policy in liberal democracies. It aims to illustrate and better understand the nature of these tensions rather than to argue specific ways of resolving them. The various chapters explore the complexity of interaction between the two forms of authority in different policy domains in order to identify both common elements and differences. The policy domains covered include: climate geoengineering discourses; environmental health; biotechnology; nuclear power; whaling; economic management; and the use of force. This volume will appeal to researchers and to convenors of post-graduate courses in the fields of policy studies, foreign policy decision-making, political science, environmental studies, democratic system studies, and science policy studies.

Author : Péter Hartl,Adam Tamas Tuboly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000345407

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Science, Freedom, Democracy by Péter Hartl,Adam Tamas Tuboly Pdf

This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research. The chapters explore how these values mutually reinforce or conflict with one another, in both historical and contemporary contexts. The contributors utilize various approaches to address this timely subject, including historical studies, philosophical analysis, and sociological case studies. The chapters cover a range of topics including academic freedom and autonomy, public control of science, the relationship between scientific pluralism and deliberative democracy, lay-expert relations in a democracy, and the threat of populism and autocracy to scientific inquiry. Taken together the essays demonstrate how democratic values and the epistemic and non-epistemic values associated with science are interconnected. Science, Freedom, Democracy will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in philosophy of science, history of philosophy, sociology of science, political philosophy, and epistemology.

Author : Gary P. Freeman,Randall Hansen,David L. Leal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415519083

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Immigration and Public Opinion in Liberal Democracies by Gary P. Freeman,Randall Hansen,David L. Leal Pdf

Leading international experts and aspiring researchers from the fields of political science and sociology use a range of case studies from North America, Europe and Australia to guide the reader through the complexities of this debate offering an unprecedented comparative examination of public opinion and immigration.

Author : Stephen Turner
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761954694

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Liberal Democracy 3.0 by Stephen Turner Pdf

'... a powerful piece of work that deserves to be read widely. It ranges across central concerns in the fields of social theory, political theory, and science studies and engages with the ideas of key classical and contemporary thinkers' - Barry Smart, Professor of Sociology, University of Portsmouth

Author : Patrick Dunleavy,Brendan O'Leary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349186655

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Theories of the State by Patrick Dunleavy,Brendan O'Leary Pdf

A major introductory textbook for students of politics, sociology and public administration on theories of the state and of politics. The five core chapters each introduce a major school of thought providing a substantial analysis of the methodology and philosophy, as well as the main objections and criticisms to which each has given rise. The theories and examples are drawn from a wide range of industrial societies.

Author : E. Robert Statham
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 073910294X

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Public Philosophy and Political Science by E. Robert Statham Pdf

The crisis of western civilization is a crisis of public philosophy. This is the charge of Public Philosophy and Political Science, a stunning new collection of essays edited by E. Robert Statham Jr. Vividly cataloging the decay of the moral and intellectual foundations of civic liberty, the book portrays a generation of Americans alienated from institutions built on public philosophy. The work exposes the failure of America's political scientists to acknowledge and understand this alarming crisis in the American body politic. The distinguished contributors examine the evolution of public philosophy; the inextricable relationship between politics and philosophy; and the interplay between public philosophy, the constitution, natural law, and government. They reveal the dire threat to deliberative democracy and the fundamental order of constitutional society posed by public philosophy's waning power to refine, cultivate, and civilize. The work is an indictment of a society which has discarded a way of life rooted in natural law, democracy and the traditions of civility; and is a denunciation of an educated elite that has divorced itself from the standards upon which public philosophy rests. It is essential reading for philosophers and political and social scientists seeking to resurrect the standards of American public life.

Author : Tadao Miyakawa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Policy sciences
ISBN : 0415195950

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The Science of Public Policy: Evolution of policy sciences, pt. 2 by Tadao Miyakawa Pdf

Author : Yoram Levy,Marcel Wissenburg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134355075

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Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism by Yoram Levy,Marcel Wissenburg Pdf

In recent decades, environmental issues have increasingly been incorporated into liberal democratic thought and political practice. Environmentalism and ecologism have become fashionable, even respectable schools of political thought. This apparently successful integration of environmental movements, issues and ideas in mainstream politics raises the question of whether there is a future for what once was a counter-movement and counter-ideology. Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism provides a reflective assessment of recent developments, social relevance and future of environmental political theory, concluding that although the alleged pacification of environmentalism is more than skin deep, it is not yet quite deep enough. This book will appeal to students and researchers of social science and philosophers with an interest in environmental issues.

Author : Katherine van Wormer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191039379

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Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations by Katherine van Wormer Pdf

In this ground-breaking study, John Dryzek argues that democratic theory is now dominated by a deliberative approach. As one of those responsible for this turn, John Dryzek now takes issue with the direction it has taken. Discussing the models of democracy advocated by both friends and critics of the deliberative approach, Dryzek shows that democracy should be critical of established power, transitional in extending beyond national boundaries, and dynamic in its openness to changing constraints upon and opportunities for democratization. - ;The past few years have seen a remarkable ferment in the theory of democracy. Deliberative Democracy and Beyond builds on a critical tour through recent democratic theory by one of the leading political theorists in the field. It examines the deliberative turn in democratic theory, which argues that the essence of democratic legitimacy is to be found in authentic deliberations on the part of those affected by a collective decision. The deliberative turn began as a challenge to established institutions and models of democracy, but it has now been largely assimilated by these same institutions and models. Drawing a distinction between liberal constitutionalist deliberative democracy and discursive democracy, the author criticizes the former and advocates the latter. He argues that a defensible theory of democracy should be critical of established power, pluralistic, reflexive in its questioning orientation to established traditions, transnational in its capacity to extend across state boundaries, ecological, and dynamic in its openness to ever-changing constraints upon and opportunities for democratization. Dryzek's reinvigorated approach enables deliberative democracy to respond more effectively to the criticisms that have been leveled against it. - ;Remarkable book ... Dryzek's discussions are unfailingly lucid, and his critical assessments of the literature remain comprehensive and illuminating ... Readers will find much to ponder in what he has to say. - Ethics;The most remarkable and subtle part of Dryzek's argument is his attempt to construct green theory of democratic communication, which takes account of agency and communication in the non-human natural world ... The argument is a bit like crossing a ravine on a bridge of eggshells, and is conducted with considerable intellectual excitement ... Dryzek's discussion is throughout careful, rigorous, detailed, and in dealing with views from which he distinguishes his own position, scrupulously sympathetic. - Democratizaton;This clear and imaginative presentation of recent attempts to make democracy more inclusive than traditional liberal models bounded by the institutions of the state is highly recommended for collections serving upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers. - Choice;Dryzek is a sharp and authoritative critic, and this will be an influential work ... even the sceptical will do well to engage closely with Dryzek's provocative vision. - Political Studies

Author : Yascha Mounk
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674976825

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The People Vs. Democracy by Yascha Mounk Pdf

Uiteenzetting over de opkomst van het populisme en het gevaar daarvan voor de democratie.

Author : Steven M. DeLue
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498575379

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How the Liberal Arts Can Save Liberal Democracy by Steven M. DeLue Pdf

Currently, liberal democracy is threatened by authoritarian movements, not just in the United States but also in societies around the world. The liberal arts helps to arrest these tendencies because of the support by citizens in liberal democracies for the values the latter shares with the liberal arts: autonomy and freedom. Autonomy is the capacity to make reasoned decisions about a host of political, social, and personal matters—independent of external parties who seek to control our lives for the sake of their ends and at the cost of our freedom. But autonomy depends on people being able to enter into discussions—what I call discourses of mutual respect—designed to test ideas in public against facts and good reasons. This discourse is facilitated by an enlarged culture through which individuals identify what they hold in common and by which individuals work to understand their differences. Now, authoritarian regimes reject autonomy because it empowers citizens to designate the boundaries and content of political authority. Liberal democracies, in contrast, embrace autonomy because it is the basis for the political institutions that provide civic equality—and through it—the freedom of citizens to control their destiny. Yet, ironically, an enlarged culture and the discourse of mutual respect that, together, sustain autonomy are not likely to be produced within a highly partisan political atmosphere of a liberal democracy. Still, a liberal democracy is open to the importation of these elements from the liberal arts. Thus, saving liberal democracy from authoritarianism depends on a robust liberal arts presence in society. What reforms of the liberal arts are needed to make this objective possible? Much rides on the answer to this question. For the fact is that if the liberal arts recedes to a whisper, liberal democracy is likely to be defeated by the authoritarian’s bluster-filled and always nihilist roar.

Author : Richard Wellen
Publisher : Richard Wellen
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780973841305

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Dilemmas in Liberal Democratic Thought Since Max Weber, 2nd. ed. by Richard Wellen Pdf

Dilemmas in Liberal Democratic Thought since Max Weber establishes Max Weber's work as a touchstone for surveying the theoretical dilemmas of the liberal democratic tradition. Through a subtle examination of Weber's status as a political thinker we are invited to consider new interpretations of later figures such as MacIntyre, Rorty, Strauss, and Habermas. Perhaps the most important contribution is Wellen's account of the tacit alternatives liberal thought has discovered in its own foundation and practical implications.