The politics of scientific advice : institutional design for quality assurance / / Justus Lentsch and Peter Weingart (eds.).

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Lentsch, Justus.; Weingart, Peter.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xix, 381 p. :; ill.
• Other title: Methodological Issues: Quality Control and Assurance in Scientific Policy Advice: Introduction: the quest for quality as a challenge to scientific policy advice: an overdue debate? /; Quality control and peer review in advisory science /; Reconciling representation with reality: unitisation as an example for science and public policy /; Looking for quality in all the wrong places, or: the technological origins of quality in scientific policy advice /; Collegial Science Advisory Bodies: Knowledge, advice and influence: the role of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 1970-2009 /; International Commission on Radiological Protection: policy and worldwide standards/; The European Commission and the collection and use of science and technology advice /; Collegial Science Policy Advisory Bodies: RMNO and quality control of scientific advice to policy /; Quality assurance through procedures: policy advice by the German Science Council /; Research-Based Advisory Organizations: The industrial organisation of economic policy preparation in The Netherlands /; Quality control for the leading institutes of economic research in Germany: promoting quality within and competition between the institutes /; Quality control and the link between science and regulation from a national and EU administrator's perspective /; Science into policy: the European Environment Agency /; Reflective approaches to uncertainty assessment and communication /; Looking through the telescope: quality assurance in scientific advice to politics /; Scientific policy advice and foreign policymaking: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs /; Academies of Science: Scientific advice for policy in the United States: lessons from the National Academies and the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment /; Quality control in scientific policy advice: the experience of the Royal Society /; European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) /; Quality control in the advisory process: towards an institutional design for robust science advice /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781107003705 (hardback); 1107003709 (hardback); 9780521177153 (pbk.); 0521177154 (pbk.); 9781139099592 (electronic bk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Justus Lentsch and Peter Weingart (eds.).

"Controversies over issues such as genetically engineered food, foot-and-mouth disease and the failure of risk models in the global financial crisis have raised concerns about the quality of expert scientific advice. The legitimacy of experts, and of the political decision-makers and policy-makers whom they advise, essentially depends on the quality of the advice. But what does quality mean in this context, and how can it be achieved? This volume argues that the quality of scientific advice can be ensured by an appropriate institutional design of advisory organisations. Using examples from a wide range of international case studies, including think tanks, governmental research institutes, agencies and academies, the authors provide a systematic guide to the major problems and pitfalls encountered in scientific advice and the means by which organisations around the world have solved these problems"--