Citation

Nishizawa M. Sociotechnica 2003; 1: 133-140.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, The University of Tokyo, Sociotechnology Research Network)

DOI

10.3392/sociotechnica.1.133

PMID

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Abstract

Citizen deliberation in science and technology has increasingly been adopted as a useful way to integrate public views into policy decisions. However we should be aware that, like other policy processes, the transfer of a particular policy process from one culture to another ("social technology transfer") can result in value-conflict between the process and its new social environment and may be accompanied by some difficulties. This paper uses a recent deliberation initiative in Germany as a case and explores how the socio-political environment influenced its process and how its outcomes challenged the established understanding of the policy-making process and reacted with it.

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