Science and public participation in regulating genetically-engineered food: Franch an American experiences
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This paper describes three cases of government-led efforts in France and
the United States to bring stakeholders into the regulatory process for genetically-modified
food. We analyze how government regulators, scientists, and members of the public
interacted in these three different settings, and conclude that public participation is not
linked with a regulatory outcome; in other words, for various reasons which we consider,
public participation did not have a substantive impact on government policies in
this area. We consider how these processes could be improved, by drawing on two distinct
literatures — social studies of science and organization theory. A more conscious crossfertilization
of the two literatures would shed some insights broadly on science and
public organizations, and particularly on the problem of regulating a complex and
uncertain area of technology.