Knowledge Use and Political Choice in Dutch Environmental Policy: A Problem Structuring Perspective on Real Life Experiments in Extended Peer Review

Matthijs Hisschemöller; Rob Hoppe; Peter Groenewegen; Cees J.H. Midden

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Knowledge Use and Political Choice in Dutch Environmental Policy: A Problem Structuring Perspective on Real Life Experiments in Extended Peer Review

Matthijs Hisschemöller, Rob Hoppe, Peter Groenewegen, Cees J.H. Midden

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According to mainstream policy wisdom, knowledge utilization is a function of both political and scientific consensus. The substantial technical core in environmental policy, and its wide-ranging impacts on decisions and behaviors of firms, households, and consumers, only underscores this double requirement. This chapter argues that the problematic relationship between knowledge use and political choice can be understood as a particular instance of boundary work at the politics-science nexus, that is, the dialectics between the scientization of politics and the politicization of science. Problem structuring, like the idea of quality control through extended peer review, aims at an escape from the potential dilemma between democratic political choice and technocratic use of scientific knowledge. The problem thus appears to be moderately structured. However, there is evidence that the theory fails to grasp the real life situation with respect to Dutch fisheries.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Knowledge, Power and Participation in Environmental Policy Analysis
Editors	Matthijs Hisschemöller, Rob Hoppe, Peter Groenewegen, Cees J.H. Midden
Place of Publication	New Brunswick/London
Publisher	Transaction Publishers
Chapter	19
Number of pages	34
ISBN (Print)	0-7658-0076-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351325721-26
Publication status	Published - 2001

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Knowledge, Power and Participation in Environmental Policy Analysis
Hisschemöller, M., Hoppe, R., Dunn, W. N. & Ravetz, J. R., 2001, New Brunswick/London: Transaction Publishers. 500 p. (Policy studies review annual; vol. 12)
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Hisschemöller, M., Hoppe, R., Groenewegen, P., & Midden, C. J. H. (2001). Knowledge Use and Political Choice in Dutch Environmental Policy: A Problem Structuring Perspective on Real Life Experiments in Extended Peer Review. In M. Hisschemöller, R. Hoppe, P. Groenewegen, & C. J. H. Midden (Eds.), Knowledge, Power and Participation in Environmental Policy Analysis Transaction Publishers. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351325721-26

Hisschemöller, Matthijs ; Hoppe, Rob ; Groenewegen, Peter et al. / Knowledge Use and Political Choice in Dutch Environmental Policy : A Problem Structuring Perspective on Real Life Experiments in Extended Peer Review. Knowledge, Power and Participation in Environmental Policy Analysis. editor / Matthijs Hisschemöller ; Rob Hoppe ; Peter Groenewegen ; Cees J.H. Midden. New Brunswick/London : Transaction Publishers, 2001.

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Hisschemöller, M, Hoppe, R, Groenewegen, P & Midden, CJH 2001, Knowledge Use and Political Choice in Dutch Environmental Policy: A Problem Structuring Perspective on Real Life Experiments in Extended Peer Review. in M Hisschemöller, R Hoppe, P Groenewegen & CJH Midden (eds), Knowledge, Power and Participation in Environmental Policy Analysis. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick/London. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351325721-26

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Knowledge, Power and Participation in Environmental Policy Analysis. ed. / Matthijs Hisschemöller; Rob Hoppe; Peter Groenewegen; Cees J.H. Midden. New Brunswick/London: Transaction Publishers, 2001.

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Hisschemöller M, Hoppe R, Groenewegen P, Midden CJH. Knowledge Use and Political Choice in Dutch Environmental Policy: A Problem Structuring Perspective on Real Life Experiments in Extended Peer Review. In Hisschemöller M, Hoppe R, Groenewegen P, Midden CJH, editors, Knowledge, Power and Participation in Environmental Policy Analysis. New Brunswick/London: Transaction Publishers. 2001 doi: 10.4324/9781351325721-26

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