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Science in democracy : expertise, institutions, and representation
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Science in democracy : expertise, institutions, and representation

Author: Mark B Brown
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mark B Brown
ISBN: 9780262013246 026201324X 9780262513043 0262513048
OCLC Number: 309835970
Description: xvi, 354 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Modern politics and the mirror of nature -- Niccolò Machiavelli and the popular politics of expertise -- Power and publicity in modern science -- Consent and competence in representative government -- Liberal rationalism and government advisory committees -- Democratizing representation in science and politics -- Thomas Hobbes and the authorization of science -- John Dewey and the reconstruction of representation -- Bruno Latour and the symmetries of science and politics -- How science becomes political -- Elements of democratic representation -- Institutionalizing democratic representation.
Responsibility: Mark B. Brown.

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