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The Governance of Knowledge (Paperback)
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Social surveillance and regulation of knowledge will be one of the
most important issues in the near future, one that will give rise
to unending controversy. In The Governance of Knowledge, Nico Stehr
predicts that such concerns will create a new political field,
namely, knowledge policy, which will entail regulating
dissemination of the anticipated results of rapidly increasing
knowledge. The number and range of institutionalized standards for
monitoring new knowledge has hitherto been relatively small. Only
in cases of technological applications has social control, in the
form of political regulation, so far intervened. All modern
societies today have complex regulations and extensive concerns
with the registration, licensing, testing, and monitoring of
pharmaceutical products. The increasingly important and extensive
area of intellectual property legislation and administration is an
example of social control in which certain measures selectively
determine the use of scientific finds and technical knowledge. The
Governance of Knowledge assembles a range of essays that attempt to
explore the new field of knowledge politics for the first time. It
is divided into four parts: The Emergence of Knowledge Politics:
Origins, Context, and Consequences; Major Social Institutions and
Knowledge Politics; Case Studies on the Governance of Knowledge;
and Issues in Knowledge Politics as a New Political Field.
Individual chapters concern the emergence of knowledge policy, the
embeddedness of such regulations in major social institutions, and
offer case studies of the governance of knowledge and discuss
controversial issues that are bound to accompany efforts to
regulate new knowledge. Professionals and graduate students in the
fields of scoiology, political science, social science, and law,
including policymakers and natural scientists, will find this book
extremely informative.
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