Democratic Transgressions of Law: Governing Technology through Public Participation

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Participation of concerned actors and the public is a central element in the legal regulation of science and technology. In constitutional democracy, these participatory forms are governed by the rule of law. The volume critically examines participatory governance in this realm and makes suggestions with respect to further institutional and political-cultural developments. It assembles contributions of a broad interdisciplinary range within a comparative research programme, opening the black box of participatory governance in legal procedure. The contributions are the result of almost a decade of fruitful discussion between he authors. They also demonstrate the potential of a cross-disciplinary approach that stretches from sociology, via political science and jurisprudence to hermeneutics, linguistics and conversation analysis.

Contributors are Gabriele Abels, Matthias Baier, Alfons Bora, Elena Collavin, Heiko Hausendorf, Zsuzsanna Iványi, András Kertész, Les Levidow, Kornélia Marinecz, Peter Münte, Patrick O’Mahony, Giuseppe Pellegrini, and Henrik Rahm.
Participation of concerned actors and the public is a central element in the legal regulation of science and technology. In constitutional democracy, these participatory forms are governed by the rule of law. The volume critically examines participatory governance in this realm and makes suggesti...

About the author

Alfons Bora, sociologist and lawyer, Ph.D. (1990) in Sociology, University of Freiburg, Professor of sociology at Bielefeld University, member of the German Ethics Council. He has published extensively on participation including "Technoscientific normativity and the 'iron cage' of law", in Science, Technology & Human Values (2009); with Heiko Hausendorf, Analysing Citizenship Talk (Benjamins 2006).

Heiko Hausendorf, PhD(1987) in linguistics, University of Bielefeld (Germany), professor for German Linguistics at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). His research topics are located in the field of sociolinguistics and linguistic pragmatics with a special interest in conversation analysis. Zugehörigkeit durch Sprache (Niemeyer 2000); with Alfons Bora, Analysing Citizenship Talk (Benjamins 2006).
Alfons Bora, sociologist and lawyer, Ph.D. (1990) in Sociology, University of Freiburg, Professor of sociology at Bielefeld University, member of the German Ethics Council. He has published extensively on participation including "Technoscientific normativity and the 'iron cage' of law", in Scienc...

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