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Bourblanc, Magalie
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dc.date.accessioned |
2019-05-15T07:29:38Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2019-04 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This article contributes to unraveling the ‘paradox of scientific authority’, that is, the fact that despite the loss of authority of scientific expertise, policymakers still resort to expert advice. Re-examining the role ascribed to expert assessment in the policy-making process in controversial contexts in particular, the article succeeds in demonstrating that one of the crucial roles of expert evaluation is to establish a more compelling definition of the problem to be dealt with by policymakers. Taking the scientific controversy surrounding the proliferation of green algal bloom on Brittany beaches (France) as a case in point, I show that expert assessment conceived as a framing exercise is, however, a two-way process: it is as much about framing for the sake of settling an expert dispute with sound scientific categories than about solving public problems in a sufficiently consensual way, taking into account the distribution of power more generally in society. |
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dc.description.department |
Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development |
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dc.description.embargo |
2021-04-01 |
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dc.description.librarian |
hj2019 |
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dc.description.uri |
https://academic.oup.com/spp |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Bourblanc, M. 2019, 'Expert assessment as a framing exercise : the controversy over green macroalgal blooms’ proliferation in France', Science and Public Policy, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 264-274. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0302-3427 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1471-5430 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1093/scipol/scy056 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/69130 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Oxford University Press |
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dc.rights |
© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. |
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dc.subject |
Expert assessment |
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dc.subject |
Policy-making process |
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dc.subject |
Expert evaluation |
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dc.subject |
Green algal bloom |
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dc.subject |
Brittany beaches (France) |
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dc.title |
Expert assessment as a framing exercise : the controversy over green macroalgal blooms’ proliferation in France |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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