Risk and democracy : Reconciling citizens, experts and rulers to govern uncertainty?
(2010) , 18 pages
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- Abstract
- Our paper analyses the triangulation between risk, democracy and public policies through three main peculiarities of the contemporary regulation: proximity, efficacy and accountability. Since more than a decade, participatory mechanisms have often been used as quasi-policy instruments to counterbalance representation’s deficit of legitimacy. Scientific literature largely investigates this process. Empirical studies have documented it. But we find a blind spot here: how does this process influence the room of maneuver of the citizens when they are to evaluate political decisions to which they have been at least partly associated? The paper relies on elitist and pluralist theories of democracy, on one hand, and on cycle analysis of public policies, on the other hand, to study the articulation of participation and representation, when risk issues have to be regulated (especially in environment and public health sectors: nuclear, GMO, mobile phones, AIDS, a.o.).
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FUCaM Sciences Politiques, Sociales et de Communication Université Laval Département de science politique
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Schiffino-Leclercq, N., & Jacob, S. (2010). Risk and democracy : Reconciling citizens, experts and rulers to govern uncertainty? https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/209917