If deliberation is the answer, what is the question? Objectives and evaluation of public participation and engagement in science and technology
| Autor: | Jesse L. Reynolds, Eric B. Kennedy, Jonathan Symons |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 10, Iss 1 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 23299460 2329-9037 2329-9460 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23299460.2022.2129543 |
| Popis: | ABSTRACTPublic participation and engagement in decision-making regarding science and technology (‘PP&E’) is an increasingly common practice. But what is known of whether PP&E achieves its goals? Surprisingly, little research evaluates PP&E. We put forth three reasons why PP&E advocates and practitioners should take evaluation seriously: the absence of evaluation causes PP&E's advocacy to fail a minimal burden-of-proof standard; PP&E's costs are greater than they appear; and these costs may be disproportionately borne by the already-disadvantaged. Evaluating PP&E would require identifying PP&E's objectives and assessing its success in meeting them. To this end we survey scholarship advocating PP&E and identify three sets of objectives: substantively improving decision-making, deontologically fulfilling widely-held norms, and politically redistributing power away from techno-scientific elites. While there is some ad hoc evidence of progress toward these goals, we find no robust evaluation of PP&E. We offer four recommendations that might assist in evaluating PP&E more thoroughly. |
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