Name: The Fifth Branch By Sheila Jasanoff
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The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers by Sheila Jasanoff

Jasanoff (Program on Science, Technology, and Society, Cornell) begins by describing some significant failures such as flu shots, Love Canal, and alar in administrative and judicial decisionmaking that fed the demand for more peer review of regulatory science. She merges legal and institutional anal

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The problems of science and politics continue. Jasanoff's work will surely enlighten the debate. -- Susan Bartlett Foote "Science"
Thorough and thoughtful. "The Fifth Branch" will remain the definitive work in its field for a considerable time to come. -- Roger Williams "Political Studies"
A provocative and original work...Jasanoff has pioneered the exploring of the workings of the gears and sprockets of the Fifth Branch. -- Daniel S. Greenberg "Nature"
A first-rate study... Jasanoff's findings have important bearing on the general concern with the impact of expertise on democracy. -- Sanford Lakoff "Political Science Quarterly"
Jasanoff focuses down sharply on a set of solidly researched case-studies involving the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration, and their handling of regulations concerning clean air, pesticides, and the safety of pharmaceuticals and food additives. But this apparent narrowness belies the theoretical significance of the book, which far transcends its empirical base in these examples and, for that matter, in the United States. -- Philip Gummett "Times Higher Education Supplement"

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CIN0674300610G

ISBN 13

9780674300613

ISBN 10

0674300610

Title

The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers by Sheila Jasanoff

Author

Sheila Jasanoff

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Year published

1990-11-29

Number of pages

318

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