Technical sophistication of policy has discouraged public engagement with values in assessment

Evidence

The increasing technical sophistication of environmental policy making has discouraged public engagement with the inevitable gaps, uncertainties, and ambiguities of scientifi c and economic assessment, as well as the moral and po litical values that are implicated by such assessment. — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere, 664

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: technicality-as-de-democratization — how requiring quantitative sophistication in policymaking shifts power to experts and away from citizens, a through-line for the Legal Systems course.
• XREF: connects to: Environmental crisis roots are epistemological, ethical, and political, a crisis of ideas — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 654; Moral philosophy belongs to culture and thus coevolves with, rather than opposes, cognition. — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 111; Efforts to reverse technocratic expertise tend to fail as mere moralism — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 332

Broader Connections

• Efforts to reverse technocratic expertise tend to fail as mere moralism #corroborates (0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 332