Why democracies need science /
We live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society. Experts, including scientists, are suspected of working to hidden agendas or serving vested interests. The solution is usually seen as more public scrutiny and more control by democratic institutions experts m...
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA :
Polity Press,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introduction. 1. Science as a moral choice
- Part II. Elective modernism. 2. Choosing science ; 3. Elective modernism, democracy and science
- Part III. Academic context. 4. Elective modernism in context ; 5. Institutional innovations
- Part IV. Manifesto. 6. Elective modernism and democracy