Democratizing Science
The Political Roots of the Public Engagement Agenda
1st Edition
Published on 25. September 2023
Book
Hardback
140 pages
978-1-5292-2395-8 (ISBN)
Description
Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Public trust in the scientific community is under extraordinary pressure. Crucial areas of human activity and public policy, such as education, universities, climate and health care are influenced by populist political strategies rather than evidence-based solutions. Moreover, data-driven methods are becoming increasingly subject to delegitimization.
This book examines potential remedies for improving public trust and the legitimacy of science. It reviews different policy approaches adopted by governments to incentivize the empowerment of stakeholders through co-production arrangements, participatory mechanisms, public engagement and interaction between citizens and researchers.
Offering an original analysis of the political roots of the governmental impact and engagement agenda, this book sheds much-needed light on the wider connections to democracy.
Public trust in the scientific community is under extraordinary pressure. Crucial areas of human activity and public policy, such as education, universities, climate and health care are influenced by populist political strategies rather than evidence-based solutions. Moreover, data-driven methods are becoming increasingly subject to delegitimization.
This book examines potential remedies for improving public trust and the legitimacy of science. It reviews different policy approaches adopted by governments to incentivize the empowerment of stakeholders through co-production arrangements, participatory mechanisms, public engagement and interaction between citizens and researchers.
Offering an original analysis of the political roots of the governmental impact and engagement agenda, this book sheds much-needed light on the wider connections to democracy.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
313 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-2395-8 (9781529223958)
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Person
Paola Mattei is Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan.
Content
Chapter 1 - Introduction: Science and Democracy
A crisis of public trust in science
Knowledge systems in a populist era
Overview of the book
Chapter 2 - Public Engagement: Concept, Practice and Rhetoric
Public engagement: a slippery concept
Conclusions
Chapter 3 - The Entrepreneurial State
The New Public Management
A critique of New Public Management
The case of the adoption of New Public Management in the 1990s in Italy
Citizens' Charter of Education
Conclusions
Chapter 4 - The Engaged State: Bringing Citizens In
Citizen science
Collaborative governance in the new millennium and citizens as co-producers
The ecological citizen
Youth public engagement with sustainability
Conclusions
Chapter 5 - Working with Schools and the Case of Ecological Citizenship
Education for sustainable development in Italy
Adoption of mandatory civic education in schools
Operational concerns from the street level
Discussion and analysis
Conclusions
Chapter 6 - Universities and Civic Engagement
The 'old' universities and their social embeddedness
The 'new' entrepreneurial university
Higher education landscape reforms: the marketization agenda
The 'engaged' university
Public universities at a crossroads
Conclusions
Chapter 7 - Rethinking the Public Scientist
Citizen science
Public engagement: the concept
Public engagement: the contradictions
Public engagement: the benign rhetoric
A crisis of public trust in science
Knowledge systems in a populist era
Overview of the book
Chapter 2 - Public Engagement: Concept, Practice and Rhetoric
Public engagement: a slippery concept
Conclusions
Chapter 3 - The Entrepreneurial State
The New Public Management
A critique of New Public Management
The case of the adoption of New Public Management in the 1990s in Italy
Citizens' Charter of Education
Conclusions
Chapter 4 - The Engaged State: Bringing Citizens In
Citizen science
Collaborative governance in the new millennium and citizens as co-producers
The ecological citizen
Youth public engagement with sustainability
Conclusions
Chapter 5 - Working with Schools and the Case of Ecological Citizenship
Education for sustainable development in Italy
Adoption of mandatory civic education in schools
Operational concerns from the street level
Discussion and analysis
Conclusions
Chapter 6 - Universities and Civic Engagement
The 'old' universities and their social embeddedness
The 'new' entrepreneurial university
Higher education landscape reforms: the marketization agenda
The 'engaged' university
Public universities at a crossroads
Conclusions
Chapter 7 - Rethinking the Public Scientist
Citizen science
Public engagement: the concept
Public engagement: the contradictions
Public engagement: the benign rhetoric