@book{2d6f0029be7e456dab5db0b6306ae4cc,
title = "The politics of displacements. Towards a framework for democratic evaluation",
abstract = "Although the political dimension of technological innovation is widely acknowledged, there remains a gap between empirical research into this politics and normative research into its democratic quality. Especially methods for evaluating the democratic quality of dynamic and non-formal forms of innovation politics are lacking. This paper develops a framework for analysing the politics of innovation in terms of displacements of issues. It first argues that decision-making about design and use generally takes place in a multitude of settings and that this circumstance calls for theoretical investigation of displacements between settings. Based on an elaboration of the notions of {\textquoteleft}issue{\textquoteright}, {\textquoteleft}setting{\textquoteright}, and {\textquoteleft}displacement{\textquoteright} a conceptual framework is construed that might be helpful in the democratic evaluation of the politics of displacements. The framework is applied in a case study of public transport innovation, which shows how subsequent displacements served to silence serious concerns and objections.",
keywords = "IR-80752, democracy, displaced politics, Innovation, public transport",
author = "Roel Nahuis",
year = "2008",
language = "Undefined",
series = "ISU Working Paper",
publisher = "Utrecht University",
number = "08.09",
}