Science in Parliament: a study of the boundary between science and politics
The objective of this project is to analyse the modes of use of scientific and technical knowledge and expertise in the Portuguese Parliament over the last 30 years.
The main aim of the study is threefold:
- describing and mapping (through the construction of a specific database) the interactions between science and politics across policy areas, with reference to the distinction between ‘policy for science’ and ‘science in policy’;
- analysing modes of access to and use of scientific and technical expertise, through specific case studies;
- and reflecting upon these, in light of international experiences, on the co-production of science and politics in Portugal.
The team attributes particular importance to the dissemination of the results, both to academics and the wider public.
Tasks
- Documental analysis of parliamentary activicty and construction of a searchable database (December 2006)
- Case studies on the use of S&T knowledge in parliamentary activicty (December 2006)
- Synthesis of results, policy workshop and writing of a final report (June 2007)
- Activities with school studentes and other dissemination activities (June 2007)
Data Base, Conference, Publications, Report, Activities in secondary schools.
Presentations
Rodrigues, António Farinhas; Carvalho, António; Nunes, João Arriscado; Pereira, Tiago Santos (2008), "Parliament and Scientific Knowledge", presentation to the 1st ISA Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain, 05-08 September.
Rodrigues, António Farinhas; Carvalho, António; Pereira, Tiago Santos (2008), "Science, Technology, and the Portuguese Parliament: the cases of Medically Assisted Reproduction and of the Nuclear Energy", presentation to the 4S/EASST 2008 - Acting with Science, Technology and Medicine, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 20-23 August.
Pereira, Tiago Santos; Rodrigues, António Farinhas; Carvalho, António; Nunes, João Arriscado (2008), "The subject of risk in the Portuguese parliament", presentation to the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines 2008, University of Hertfordshire, 10-12 July.
Carvalho, António; Rodrigues, António Farinhas; Nunes, João Arriscado; Pereira, Tiago Santos (2008), "Debates parlamentares e não-humanos: Em torno de uma ecologia política", presentation to the VI Congresso Português de Sociologia: Mundos Sociais, Saberes e Práticas, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 25-28 June.
Rodrigues, António Farinhas; Carvalho, António; Nunes, João Arriscado; Pereira, Tiago Santos (2008), "O Parlamento português e controvérsias técnicas: notas sobre modelos institucionais", presentation to the VI Congresso Português de Sociologia: Mundos Sociais, Saberes e Práticas, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 25-28 June.
Pereira, Tiago Santos; Carvalho, António; Rodrigues, António Farinhas; Nunes, João Arriscado (2008), "Parlamento, Conhecimento Científico e Deliberação: Dois estudos de caso no Parlamento Português", presentation to the VII Jornadas Latinoamericanas de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ESOCITE), Rio de Janeiro, 28-30 May.
Rodrigues, António Farinhas; Santos Pereira, Tiago; Carvalho, António; Arriscado Nunes, João (2008), "Conhecimento Científico e Deliberação no Parlamento Português: Os Casos da Energia Nuclear e da Procriação Medicamente Assistida", paper presented to the IV Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa), 06-07 March.
Santos Pereira, Tiago; Carvalho, António; Arriscado Nunes, João; Rodrigues, António Farinhas (2007), "Parlamento e conhecimento Científico: dupla delegação presentation to the Congress Democracia, Deliberação e Participação Política, Instituto de Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, 23 November.
António Carvalho
António Farinhas Rodrigues
João Arriscado Nunes
Maria Eduarda Gonçalves
Tiago Santos Pereira (coord)