- 1. Rationalizing Politics
- The Rise of Social Regulation
- Science and Policymaking
- Expertise and Trust
- The Contingency of Knowledge
- The Reform Debate
- An Alternative Approach
- 2. Flawed Decisions
- Nitrites
- 2,4,5-T
- Love Canal
- Estimates of Occupational Cancer
- The Technocratic Response
- A Critical Counterpoint
- 3. Science for the People
- The Rationale for Public Science
- The “New” Expert Agency
- Scientific Advice and Open Government
- Judicial Review of Science Policy
- The Weakening of the Paradigm
- 4. Peer Review and Regulatory Science
- The Traditions of Peer Review
- Peer Review in Practice
- Instructive Failures
- Regulatory Science: Content and Context
- Implications for Regulatory Peer Review
- 5. EPA and the Science Advisory Board
- Early Political Challenges
- A New Cooperation
- Boundary Exercises
- SAB’s Impact on Policy
- Conclusion
- 6. The Science and Policy of Clean Air
- CASAC and the NAAQS Process
- Science and Standards
- Redefining CASAC’s Role
- The Carbon Monoxide Controversy
- CASAC’s Effectiveness: Bridging Science and Policy
- 7. Advisers as Adversaries
- The Scientific Advisory Panel
- Implementing the Impossible
- Ethylene Dibromide
- Dicofol
- Alar
- A Fragmentation of Authority
- 8. FDA’s Advisory Network
- The Scientific Evaluation of Drugs
- Expertise and Food Safety
- Advice and Decision
- 9. Coping with New Knowledge
- The Quest for Principled Risk Assessment
- Formaldehyde: An Uncertain Carcinogen
- Conclusion
- 10. Technocracy Revisited
- A Public–Private Partnership for Science
- Risk Assessment without Politics
- The Public Board of Inquiry
- Wider Applications
- 11. The Political Function of Good Science
- From Advice to Policy
- Acceptable Risk
- Scientific Advice as Legitimation: Negotiation and Boundary Work
- Defining “Good Science”
- Normative Implications
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index


The Fifth Branch
Science Advisers as Policymakers
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$39.00 • £31.95 • €35.00
ISBN 9780674300620
Publication Date: 08/19/1998