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...