This article claims that science is not useless, despite its inability to give clear-cut and unambiguous policy suggestions. The introduction of checks and balances in the institutional structure of scientific counselling for politics science benefits the variation of information provision and...

Despite the institutional complications involved in bridging the gap between experts and citizens, the issue of participatory and deliberative decision-making and democracy has remained firmly on the political and policy agendas. Citizens in most western nations have high levels of education...

Analysing knowledge use in policy processes around contested topics requires a new research approach. Traditional research on knowledge for policy assumes a one-to-one relationship (which is often imperfect) between science and policy as two separate worlds. Science, technology and society...