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Experts, Citizens, and Eurocrats Towards a Policy Shift in the Governance of Biopolitics in the EU

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dc.creator Gabriele Abels
dc.date 2002
dc.date.accessioned 2013-05-30T13:35:20Z
dc.date.available 2013-05-30T13:35:20Z
dc.date.issued 2013-05-30
dc.identifier http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2002-019.htm
dc.identifier http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=10275193&date=2002&volume=6&issue=&spage=19
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/5835
dc.description The hypothesis put forward in this paper is that we are currently observing a remarkable policy shift in the European Community concerning the conceptual basis and instruments for the governance of biopolitics. Biopolitics refers to an emerging policy field which involves the societal conflicts over the application of new genetic and reproductive technologies to humans (biomedicine) as well as the application of these new technologies particularly to agriculture and food production (biotechnology). The changes refer to the basic concept of how to govern the relationship between science and society, experts and lay-people, citizens and Eurocrats. The EC is opening up for incorporating ethical concerns into its research, technology and development policy as well as its regulatory biopolicies; furthermore, there is growing openness for participatory forms of biopolicy-making, yet the meaning of participation is limited. The reasons for this development are to be found in a more general trend in the transformation of European governance on the one hand aiming at involving civil society actors, and, on the other hand, in the characteristics of the policy field. These visions, spread out in the Commission s White Paper on European Governance and several related policy papers, prove to be challenging for the Union as dynamic and multi-level polity.
dc.publisher ECSA-Austria
dc.source European Integration Online Papers
dc.subject sectoral governance
dc.subject RTD policy
dc.subject new technologies
dc.subject civil society
dc.subject democratization
dc.subject European Commission
dc.subject European Parliament
dc.subject expert committees
dc.subject legitimacy
dc.subject risk regulation
dc.subject political science
dc.title Experts, Citizens, and Eurocrats Towards a Policy Shift in the Governance of Biopolitics in the EU


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