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1. Science and Public Reason

   By Sheila Jasanoff

   Series: The Earthscan Science in Society Series

   This essay collection explores how democratic governments construct public reason—that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens. The term public reason as used here is not simply a matter of constructing principled arguments that respect...

   To Be Published June 24th 2013 by Routledge
2. States of Knowledge

   The Co-production of Science and the Social Order

   Edited by Sheila Jasanoff

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   In the past twenty years, the field of science and technology studies (S&TS) has made considerable progress toward illuminating the relationship between scientific knowledge and political power. These insights are now ready to be synthesized and presented in forms that systematically highlight...

   Published May 16th 2006 by Routledge