Chapter One: Science, Politics, and Institutional Design in Regulation, in PMBTS: Molecular Biology and Clinical Medicine in the Age of Politicization

Abstract

The politicization of science is a recurring phenomenon in US federal policymaking that is explained in part by the unstructured, collaborative nature of decision-making in most science-intensive US regulatory programs. In this chapter we spotlight some of the most significant worries arising from this longstanding approach to U.S. institutional design for expert agencies and offer recommendations for stronger institutional structures to help guard against the politicization of science.

Chapter One:  Science, Politics, and Institutional Design in Regulation, in PMBTS: Molecular Biology and Clinical Medicine in the Age of Politicization Volume 187, at pp. 1-27 2022).