Science and Public Reason

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Focusing on the institutional logics and practices of democratic governments, this book examines how they construct public reason to legitimize legal and policy decisions. It provides a cross-national comparative analysis of the evidence and arguments used to persuade the public of the reliability of knowledge and expertise behind these decisions. Through empirical detail, it highlights the complexities and variances in how different democracies approach the construction of public reason.