The gate/resonance model provides an analytical frame for the description of technology conflicts. It offers an analytical scheme to conceptualise the interaction between public opinion, interest representing organisations, the media and the political system. The model distinguishes structural...

Neue "strategische" Technologien finden zuweilen wenig Zuspruch bei BürgerInnen, weil in ihrer Anwendung Risiken gesehen werden, in der Vergangenheit etwa bei der Kernenergie und Teilen der Gentechnik. Manche prophezeien der Nanotechnologie ein ähnliches Schicksal wie der Gentechnik, weil es...

Citizens' conferences as a form of participatory technology assessment (pTA) are said to increase democratic legitimacy, take up lay knowledge and improve technological solutions. Today it is part of science and technology policy rhetoric and, sometimes, practice. We confront some elements of...

The gate/resonance model provides an analytical frame for the description of technology conflicts. It offers an analytical scheme to conceptualise the interaction between public opinion, interest representing organisations, the media and the political system. The model distinguishes structural...

The invocation of the precautionary principle, for instance, to prohibit the commercialisation of genetically modified crops in Austria, has been criticised for blurring the boundaries between science and politics. Three different understandings of precaution arise in the policy process around...