Can the partnership between science and democracy survive?

For over two centuries, science and democracy have forged a partnership to promote freedom and rationality as the legitimate bases for governing human societies. Today, that partnership is at serious risk, from the radically enhanced power of science to produce and market world-transforming (and human-transforming) knowledge to the growing willingness of political elites to neglect and even undermine the institutional foundations of public knowledge-making. In this book, edited by Stephen Hilgartner, Rob Hagendijk, and myself, leading scholars from the Science and Democracy Network explore the profound trends that are changing the relationship between two of humanity’s most significant institutions in the 21st Century.

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