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Reducing the Democratic deficit in International foresight Programmes: A Case for Critical systems Thinking in Nanotechnology; examines how vitally important the foresight objective of inclusiveness in the embracement of diverse stakeholders is for the credibility of an innovation process.
Reducing the democratic deficit in institutional foresight programmes: A case for critical systems thinking in nanotechnology Denis Loveridge, Ozcan Saritas Manchester Institute of Innovation research, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9pl Manchester, UK a r
Received 17 november 2008 Received in revised form 15 july 2009 Accepted 27 july 2009 The democratic deficit (thedeficit'hereafter) in present institutional Foresight(Foresight'hereafter) lies in its participation regime.
The gap between exclusivity and inclusivity is the source of the democratic deficit: how this may be reduced, through widening participation in public Foresight,
23.1217 D. Loveridge, O. Saritas/Technological forecasting & Social Change 76 (2009) 1208 1221 5. Foresight's democratic deficit and nano artifacts The root of Foresight's deficit lies
as practiced, institutional Foresight contains a democratic deficit characterised by exclusivity as the extent of public participation is restricted.
12 D. Loveridge, O. Saritas, Reducing the democratic deficit in institutional foresight programmes: a case for critical systems thinking in nanotechnology, Technological forecasting and Social Change 76 (9)( 2009) 1208 1221.13 I. Miles, UK Foresight:
Similarly, the continuing pressure for the public participation in science and technology decision-making processes, elsewhere called ademocratic deficit'and coming from Greenpeace, the Friends of the Earth, the ETC Group,
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