Parliaments and Technology explores an issue critically important
to the practice of democracy everywhere: how do citizens and
elected officials assess the opportunities and costs of new
technologies that may profoundly impact their societies' future?
For example, what are the social and moral implications of gene
patents, reproductive technology, cloning and genetic engineering
or of virtually unlimited access to information? Technology
assessment has become one of the most important methodologies for
aiding legislatures in analyzing and deliberating such questions.
The first comparative analysis of the development and practice
of parliamentary technology assessment in different national
settings, this book explains the origins, methods, and impacts in
five European countries -- Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, and
the Netherlands -- and the European Parliament. It also provides a
theoretical framework for comparing the institutionalization of new
functions in different parliamentary systems and the influence of
national political cultures on the conceptualization and operation
of these new agencies.
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