Evaluating participatory methods

B. Bovenkerk

Evaluating participatory methods

于Ethical futures: bioscience and food horizons

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B. Bovenkerk

B. Bovenkerk Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 8, 3515 CA Utrecht, the Netherlands; b.bovenkerk@uu.nl

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类型:: 章节

Page Range:: 303–309

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086866731_052

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Several reasons to call for public participation in decision-making about emerging biotechnologies can be noted: (1) biotechnology is a field with many uncertainties, and not only risks (known unknowns) but also unknown unknowns, and in this context the primacy of expert knowledge has been challenged; (2) involving the public has proven to be indispensable in receiving public trust; (3) biotechnology could be characterized as an unstructured policy problem because disagreements not only exist on the level of possible solutions, but on all levels, about facts and values, from problem demarcation to interpretation of research results. If these circumstances are not taken seriously policy problems may become intractable. Different methods of public participation have been proposed, such as citizens’ juries, consensus conferences and deliberative polls. My central question is how should we evaluate these methods? I have developed four broad conditions for the evaluation of public debates that lead to more specific criteria: (1) the debate should be open ended (the debate can in principle be re-opened), (2) it should be inclusive (it should not exclude groups or arguments), (3) there should be an absence of power imbalances (pernicious group dynamics should be avoided), (4) the results should be of a high quality (the debate should lead to preference transformation). In this paper, I will defend these criteria on the basis of the theory of deliberative democracy under conditions of pluralism.

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Ethical futures: bioscience and food horizons

ISBN:: 9789086866731

出版社:: Wageningen Academic

印刷出版日期:: 30 Oct 2009

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