Modern politics and the mirror of nature -- Niccolò Machiavelli and the popular politics of expertise -- Power and publicity in modern science -- Consent and competence in representative government -- Liberal rationalism and government advisory committees -- Democratizing representation in science and politics -- Thomas Hobbes and the authorization of science -- John Dewey and the reconstruction of representation -- Bruno Latour and the symmetries of science and politics -- How science becomes political -- Elements of democratic representation -- Institutionalizing democratic representation
Summary
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
Analysis
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-344) and index
Notes
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Print version record
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
