Impact Assessment and Democratic Politics

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4075244
AutoresWalter F Baber (Matrix Research (United States), autor correspondente)
Ano1988
Volume8
Fascículo1
Páginas172-178
Data de publicação1988-09-01
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.1541-1338.1988.tb00927.x
OpenAlexW2017883883
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas7

The advent of impact assessment as a tool of policy is the latest chapter in our understanding of the relationship between science and politics. As such, it presents at least two challenges to democratic politics. Given its emphasis on appropriate procedural character of conteniporary democratic systems. And by raising the value of technical and scientific information in environmental disputes, impact assessment poses a challenge to existing concepts of popular sovereignty, based as they are on interest and preference rather than knowledge. These challenges, however, do not rep- resent irreconcilable differences. Although there may be an inherent ten- sion between impact assessment and democratic politics, there are also areas of affinity between the two. And we are destined to accept and adapt to this tension because, in fact, understanding is one of our principal defenses against tyranny

Computer security · Democracy · Economics · Environmental ethics · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Preference · Sociology · Sovereignty · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Public Administration