Technoscientific Normativity and the ''Iron Cage'' of Law

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ID5337794
AuthorsAlfons Bora (0000-0003-0190-3079, Bielefeld University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume35
Issue1
Pages3-28
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243908329566
OpenAlexW1980390473
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited27

Participation of a broad variety of actors in decision-making processes has become an important issue in science and technology policy. Many authors claim the involvement of stakeholders and of the general public to be a core condition for legitimate and sustainable decision making. In the last decades, a wide spectrum of procedures has been developed to realize biotechnological citizenship. These procedures, composed of multiactor arenas, are either located in close relation to the system of politics, or, as in the case of administrative decision making, more closely to the system of law. In the latter case, a problematic constellation arises. Here, law and science can build a technoscientific normativity that systematically excludes political discourse. The law, although intending to provide for political freedom and citizenship rights, at the end appears to be an ''iron cage'' for political communication

Citizenship · Constellation · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations

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