Policy legitimacy, science and political authority : knowledge and action in liberal democracies / edited by Michael Heazle and John Kane.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Good Public Policy : On the Interaction of Political and Expert Authority / Michael Heazle, John Kane and Haig Patapan -- The Undead Linear Model of Expertise / Darrin Durant -- Intelligence and the Use of Armed Force / Paul R. Pillar -- The Long Goodbye : Science and Policy Making in the International Whaling Commission / Michael Heazle -- On the Interdependency of Political Authority and Economic Expertise / John Kane -- Uneasy Expertise : Geoengineering, Social Science, and Democracy in the Anthropocene / Clare Heyward and Steve Rayner -- Democratic and Expert Authority in Public and Environmental Health Policy / David Kriebel and Daniel Sarewitz -- In Search of Certainty : How Political Authority and Scientific Authority Interact in Japan's Nuclear Restart Process / Paul J. Scalise -- Drifting to New Worlds : On Politics and Science in Modern Biotechnology / Haig Patapan -- Conclusion : A Democratic Tension? / Michael Heazle and John Kane.