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"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, and 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."

Science --- Science. --- Research. --- Academic freedom. --- Democracy and science. --- Pluralism. --- Sciences et société. --- Sciences --- Recherche --- Liberté de l'enseignement. --- Démocratie et sciences. --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects --- Political aspects. --- Aspect politique. --- Société.

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Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms, cloning, stem cells, animal patenting, and new reproductive technologies crowd media headlines and policy agendas. Less noticed, but no less important, are the rifts that have appeared among leading Western nations about the right way to govern innovation in genetics and biotechnology. These significant differences in law and policy, and in ethical analysis, may in a globalizing world act as obstacles to free trade, scientific inquiry, and shared understandings of human dignity. In this magisterial look at some twenty-five years of scientific and social development, Sheila Jasanoff compares the politics and policy of the life sciences in Britain, Germany, the United States, and in the European Union as a whole. She shows how public and private actors in each setting evaluated new manifestations of biotechnology and tried to reassure themselves about their safety. Three main themes emerge. First, core concepts of democratic theory, such as citizenship, deliberation, and accountability, cannot be understood satisfactorily without taking on board the politics of science and technology. Second, in all three countries, policies for the life sciences have been incorporated into "nation-building" projects that seek to reimagine what the nation stands for. Third, political culture influences democratic politics, and it works through the institutionalized ways in which citizens understand and evaluate public knowledge. These three aspects of contemporary politics, Jasanoff argues, help account not only for policy divergences but also for the perceived legitimacy of state actions.

Democracy and science --- Démocratie et sciences --- Démocratie et sciences --- Biotechnology --- Biotechnologie --- Government policy --- Politique gouvernementale --- Science and democracy --- Science --- Industrial and intellectual property --- General ethics --- Political sociology --- European Union --- United States --- United States of America --- Science et éthique --- FINANCEMENT DE LA SCIENCE --- politique publique --- Europe --- Etats-Unis --- aspects moraux et éthiques --- politique gouvernementale

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This volume analyses and explains the crisis of democratic representation in five Andean countries: Bolivia, Colombia Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. It addresses an important question for Latin America as well as other parts of the world: why does representation sometimes fail to work?

Representative government and representation --- Democracy --- Political culture --- Culture --- Political science --- Self-government --- Equality --- Republics --- Parliamentary government --- Political representation --- Representation --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- Elections --- Suffrage --- Andes Region --- Acuerdo de Cartagena countries --- Andean countries --- Andean region --- Politics and government. --- Democracy and science --- Gouvernement représentatif --- Démocratie et sciences --- Culture politique --- Andes --- Politique et gouvernement

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Mark Brown draws on canonical & contemporary political & scientific theory, from Machiavelli to Latour, to throw light on how scientific expertise may be brought into a representative democracy.

Démocratie et sciences --- Sciences --- Représentation politique --- Science --- Science and state. --- Science and state --- Representative government and representation. --- Democracy. --- Aspect politique --- Political aspects. --- Citizen participation. --- Démocratie et sciences. --- Représentation politique. --- Aspect politique. --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Parliamentary government --- Political representation --- Representation --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- Democracy --- Elections --- Suffrage --- Science policy --- State and science --- State, The --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Government policy --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General --- Démocratie et sciences. --- Représentation politique.