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Science and Technology Policy
ENVS 5100

Week 2

August 31

Book club presentations & vote
Themes of the course – case study

  • What is policy expertise?
  • What is the role of policy expertise and policy making?

Sarewitz, D. 2015. Expertise and advocacy in an age of big science, Chapter 4 in (Wengart and Wagner eds.) Wissenschaftliche Politikberatung im Praxistest.

Optional: Pielke, R. A. 2007. The honest broker: making sense of science in policy and politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.