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10978570

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-3
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-10-19
pubmed:abstractText
Participation is a major issue in environmental research and policy. Public Risk Perception and European Environmental Policy (PRISP), a cross-national inquiry on people's orientations about chemical risks, offered the opportunity to investigate some aspects. In two Italian case studies, interest was focused on the relation between experts and lay people and the function of participation. A key objective was to explore people's opinions about deliberative democracy. This is a currently much-debated alternative to the prevailing 'strategic' forms of democracy, based on the aggregation of preferences or bargaining among conflicting interests. Is there a role for an open confrontation aimed at reaching the common good? Results show that public interest is highly rated, participation is mainly connected to citizenship and understood as a form of co-operation. In a third case study, interest was focused on the analysis of a specific form of collective action according to the 'Critical Mass' rational choice model. In this case, it is argued that a small group of citizens may reduce the costs of starting-up a collective action aimed at pursuing the preferred social goals, i.e. at governing public goods.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0304-3894
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
3
pubmed:volume
78
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
261-80
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Technological risk, participation and deliberation. Some results from three Italian case studies.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Human Sciences, University of Trieste, piazza Europa 1, 34127, Trieste, Italy. luigi.pellizzoni@uniud.it
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't