The Uses and Limitations of Classifying Scientific Advice Arrangements (original) (raw)

Issue: With increasing attention being focused on the use of scientific advice by policy-makers, there is a need to better understand the different arrangements that are used to provide this advice. As such, ways of making comparisons between advisory arrangements need to be investigated. Relevance: As part of the broader focus of the European Research Area initiative to analyse the relationship between science and governance, concern has been raised at EU level that there is a need to increase our understanding of the advisory process in order to develop a common system of scientific and technical reference for policy-making. However, if the process by which scientific advice is incorporated into policy decisions is to be improved, there is first a need to better understand the current arrangements for the provision of such advice. Through the identification of important factors that influence the way that these current structures operate, lessons regarding the use of scientific ad...

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