The Future of Science Governance: Publics, Policies, Practices

@article{Macnaghten2014TheFO,
  title={The Future of Science Governance: Publics, Policies, Practices},
  author={Phil Macnaghten and Jason Chilvers},
  journal={Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy},
  year={2014},
  volume={32},
  pages={530 - 548}
}
In this paper we develop new insights on science governance at a time when an emphasis on public engagement in responding to questions of trust in science is giving way to a more systemic and networked perspective. In a meta-analysis across seventeen UK public dialogue processes we identify five spheres of public concern about the governance of science and technology relating to: the purposes of science; trust; inclusion; speed and direction of innovation; and equity. Forty in-depth interviews… 
View on SAGE
106 Citations
Highly Influential Citations
3
Background Citations
38
Methods Citations
6

Tables from this paper

106 Citations

Citation Type

Citation Type

From experiments to ecosystems? Reviewing public participation, scientific governance and the systemic turn
TLDR
The article distinguishes between an aggregative approach, deliberative systems theory, an eco-systemic and a decentred governance approach and argues that the latter allows us to study the complexities of public participation without relying on a normative concept of system and account for power relations that may structure the field of publicparticipation.
Towards an anticipatory public engagement methodology: deliberative experiments in the assembly of possible worlds using focus groups
Against the background of critique in public engagement scholarship on new and emerging science and innovation, this article engages with the methodological and conceptual challenges of making…
Why should we promote public engagement with science?
TLDR
This introductory essay looks back on the two decades since the journal Public Understanding of Science was launched and can see narratives of continuity and change around the practice and politics of public engagement with science.
Remaking Participation in Science and Democracy
Over the past few decades, significant advances have been made in public engagement with, and the democratization of, science and technology. Despite notable successes, such developments have often…
Collingridge and the dilemma of control: Towards responsible and accountable innovation
Responsible innovation: its institutionalisation and a critique
Beyond Rhetoric: Closing the Gap between Policy and Practice in the EU's Regulation of Risky Technologies
Several decades of research in the social sciences, particularly science and technology studies, have demonstrated both the political and controversial nature of technological innovation and the…
Socio-technical transition governance and public opinion: The case of passenger transport in Finland
‘Operator, please’ — Connecting truth and power at the science-policy interface
TLDR
This special issue aims to provide a platform for researchers to address communication at the intersection of science and politics from different angles and aims to reduce the contingency of science-policy communication in its various dimensions.
From collaborative to institutional reflexivity: Calibrating responsibility in the funding process
Science–policy organisations are expected to be reflexive of their political influence on research and society. In this long-standing discourse on institutional reflexivity, formal organisations…
...
...

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 34 REFERENCES
Locating Scientific Citizenship: The Institutional Contexts and Cultures of Public Engagement
In this article, we explore the institutional negotiation of public engagement in matters of science and technology. We take the example of the Science in Society dialogue program initiated by the…
Public uptake of science: a case for institutional reflexivity
This paper attempts to advance the notion of reflexivity as a key element of improving current understanding of the public understanding of science problem, and for improving the relations between…
The Politics of Talk
Talk of public dialogue and engagement has become fashionable internationally, and particularly within Europe. Building especially upon recent British experience, this paper argues that ‘public talk’…
Nanotechnology, Governance, and Public Deliberation: What Role for the Social Sciences?
In this article we argue that nanotechnology represents an extraordinary opportunity to build in a robust role for the social sciences in a technology that remains at an early, and hence…
Researching Technoscientific Concerns in the Making: Narrative Structures, Public Responses, and Emerging Nanotechnologies
In this paper I engage with debates on technoscientific governance, narrative, and emergent public attitudes. Building on a piece of social research addressing public responses to the social and…
Environmental Risk, Uncertainty, and Participation: Mapping an Emergent Epistemic Community
Amid increasing interest in participatory forms of environmental appraisal and decision making, the actors shaping these new governance spaces remain understudied. This paper seeks to refocus…
The Issues Deserve More Credit
This paper explores the `issue-oriented' perspective on public involvement in politics opened up by recent research in Science and Technology Studies (STS). This research proposes that public…
A Decade of Learning about Publics, Participation, and Climate Change: Institutionalising Reflexivity?
Building on previous studies of participatory learning amongst individuals within discrete participation processes, the authors examine organisationally situated processes of learning related to…
Converging citizens? Nanotechnology and the political imaginary of public engagement in Brazil and the United Kingdom
This paper offers a comparative analysis of two public engagement exercises, conducted concurrently in the UK and Brazil. Following an account of how public engagement is situated in the political…
On Nanotechnology and Ambivalence: The Politics of Enthusiasm
The promise of scientific and technological innovation – particularly in fields such as nanotechnology – is increasingly set against what has been articulated as a deficit in public trust in both the…
...
...