Lay Public or Experts? e‐Participation in Authorization for GMO Products in the European Union

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ID7998399
AutoresMaria Paola Ferretti (0000-0001-8730-5066, University of Bremen), Matteo Lener (0000-0003-3778-2491, Fondazione FADOI)
Ano2008
Volume25
Fascículo6
Páginas507-525
Data de publicação2008-11-19
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReview of Policy Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1541-132X • E-ISSN: 1541-1338
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1541-1338.2008.00359.x
OpenAlexW2020618265
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas23

In the European Union, for the first time, lay people can participate directly in the procedure of assessment of GMO (genetically modified organisms) products, an exercise normally reserved for scientists and legal experts. What makes this a unique strategy of participation is that for each single application for authorization, lay people have the opportunity to express their views. This article presents the result of the first in‐depth analysis of this type of Internet participatory exercise in the first years of its implementation. It shows that, despite generally participatory technology assessment aims at deliberative consensus on technical questions, this forum is instead a way to expose the work of regulative authorities to public scrutiny and to express dissent and opposition to the European Commission policy on GMOs

Authorization · Business · Citizen journalism · Commission · Computer security · Dissent · Dissenting opinion · European commission · European union · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Public participation · Public relations · Scrutiny · Work (physics · Computer Science · Copyright and Intellectual Property · Engineering · Genetically Modified Organisms Research · Intellectual Property and Patents · Law · Public Administration