Legitimation problems of participatory processes in technology assessment and technology policy

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Legitimation problems of participatory processes in technology assessment and technology policy. / Saretzki, Thomas.
in: Poiesis & Praxis. International Journal of Ethics and Technology Assessment, Jahrgang 9, Nr. 1-2, 16.11.2012, S. 7-26.

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title = "Legitimation problems of participatory processes in technology assessment and technology policy",
abstract = "Since James Carroll (1971) made a strong case for {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}participatorytechnology{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}, scientists, engineers, policy-makers and the public at large have seenquite a number of different approaches to design and implement participatoryprocesses in technology assessment and technology policy. As these participatoryexperiments and practices spread over the last two decades, one could easily get theimpression that participation turned from a theoretical normative claim to a workingpractice that goes without saying. Looking beyond the well-known forerunners andconsidering the ambivalent experiences that have been made under different conditionsin various places, however, the {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}if{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}how{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} of participation are stillcontested issues when questions of technology are on the agenda. Legitimationproblems indicate that attempts to justify participation in a given case have not beenentirely successful in the eyes of relevant groups among the sponsors, participants,organizers or observers. Legitimation problems of participatory processes in technologyassessment and technology policy vary considerably, and they do so not onlywith the two domains and the ways of their interrelation or the specific features ofthe participatory processes. If we ask whether or not participation is seen asproblematic in technology assessment and technology policy-making and in whatsense it is being evaluated as problematic, then we find that the answer depends alsoon the approaches and criteria that have been used to legitimize or delegitimize thecall for a specific design of participation.",
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