Abstract
Modeling Parliamentary Technology Assessment in Relational Terms
Highlights
Parliamentary technology assessment (PTA) is “technology assessment specially aimed at informing and contributing to opinion formation of the members of parliament as clients of the TA activity” (Enzing et al 2011, p. i)
Over the last few years, in particular the EU-funded PACITA project has re-energized the debate on the institutionalization, re- and de-institutionalization PTA.2
The inclusive modeling3 presented in this article does not take interaction with the parliament a priori as the main determinant of a PTA organization
Summary
Parliamentary technology assessment (PTA) is “technology assessment specially aimed at informing and contributing to opinion formation of the members of parliament as clients of the TA activity” (Enzing et al 2011, p. i). PTA is modeled more broadly as a mediating function between the spheres of parliament, government, science and technology, and society.4 We suggest that this mediation takes place through a set of interaction mechanisms that include institutional, organizational and project dimensions. PTA practitioners like to frame their practice in both informational and relational terms (see above), as they broadly define TA as “a scientific, interactive and communicative process, which aims to contribute to the formation of public and political opinion on societal aspects of science and technology”
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