Beginning with The Fifth Branch, I have examined the ways in which scientific and technical advice shore up the legitimacy of public decisions. That book introduced and developed the concept of “regulatory science” as a distinct domain of scientific production, accountable to epistemic as well as normative demands in ways that help explain why it is vulnerable to challenges from both science and politics. A key insight of the book, conveyed by the subtitle “Science Advisers as Policymakers,” was that the boundary between science and policy is not predetermined but rather is constituted through the very processes of advice-giving. More generally, my work on expertise in the public sphere displays how political institutions and cultures authorize, and thereby condition, the production, reception, and uptake of expert knowledge.
ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All