TY - BOOK ID - 16189981 TI - Democratic experiments AU - Laurent, Brice AU - IEEE Xplore (Online service) AU - MIT Press PY - 2017 SN - 0262344475 0262035766 9780262344487 9780262035767 0262344491 0262344483 9780262344470 PB - Cambridge, Massachusetts [Piscataqay, New Jersey] MIT Press IEEE Xplore DB - UniCat KW - Nanotechnology KW - State and science KW - Democracy KW - Political aspects KW - Government policy KW - Science KW - Science policy KW - State, The KW - Molecular technology KW - Nanoscale technology KW - High technology KW - Monograph KW - Science and state KW - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General KW - SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16189981 AB - This book looks at the democratic constructions surrounding public debates about issues related to scientific and technological development, specifically in this case nanotechnology. Brice Laurent argues that nanotechnology is a lens through which one can build a theoretical and practical approach to the study of contemporary democracies, exploring the joint production of nanotechnology itself and democratic order and identifying questions related to the exercise of citizenship, forms of national sovereignty, and channels of political legitimacy. This book helps increase visibility of and accessibility to STS methodologies for scholars and practitioners outside the field of science, technology, and society. ER -