In this article, we inquire into two contemporary participatory formats that seek to
democratically intervene in scientific practice: the consensus conference and participatory …

A paper by Dietram A. Scheufele, fall 2010 fellow, analyzes the recent renaissance that
consensus conferences and public meetings have experienced regarding the discussion of …

When one wants to use citizen input to inform policy, what should the standards of
informedness on the part of the citizens be? While there are moral reasons to allow every …

What might a deliberative politics of science look like? This chapter addresses this question
by bringing together science studies and the theories and practices of deliberative …

A widely touted approach to involving laypeople in science and technology policy-related
decisions is the consensus conference. Virtually nothing written on the topic provides …

The turn toward public participation in technology assessment points to a link between
democratization and the problematization of dominant assumptions, explanations, and …

The academic debate on the democratization of expertise has reached the level of public
politics. The US National Research Council in its study on “Understanding Risk”(1996) has …

Today many scholars seem to agree that citizens should be involved in expert deliberations
on science and technology issues. This interest in public deliberation has gained attraction …

Recent science and technology studies have analyzed questions of nonexpert participation
in science, technology, and science policy from an empirically grounded perspective. The …

The potential for public engagement to democratise science has come under increasing
scrutiny amid concerns that conflicting motivations have led to confusion about what …