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Department of Government
CSUS
6000 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-6089 USA

 

 

 

Mark B. Brown
Assistant Professor
Department of Government

I joined the CSUS Government Department in the fall of 2003. Before that I held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Science & Technology Studies at Bielefeld University in Germany. I completed a Ph.D. in political science at Rutgers University in 2001. My areas of interest include modern and contemporary political theory, democratic theory, and science and technology studies. I recently completed a two-year project, "Toward a Political Theory of Bioethics," funded by the National Science Foundation.

Curriculum Vitae


Recent Courses



Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Science in Democracy, book manuscript, under contract with MIT Press.

"Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics," American Journal of Bioethics, forthcoming.

“Fairly Balanced: The Politics of Representation on Government Advisory Committees,” Political Research Quarterly, forthcoming.

“Science, Democracy, and the Right to Research,” with David H. Guston, Science and Engineering Ethics, forthcoming.

"Can Technologies Represent Their Publics?" Technology in Society 29 (2007): 327–338.

"Citizen Panels and the Concept of Representation," Journal of Political Philosophy 14, no. 2 (2006): 203–225.

“Ethics, Politics, and the Public: Shaping the Research Agenda,” in Shaping Science & Technology Policy: The Next Generation of Research, ed. David H. Guston and Daniel Sarewitz. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.

Politikberatung und Parlament [Political Advice and Parliament], with Justus Lentsch and Peter Weingart. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2006.

“Representation, Expertise, and the German Parliament: A Comparison of Three Advisory Institutions,” with Justus Lentsch and Peter Weingart, in Democratization of Expertise? Exploring Novel Forms of Scientific Advice in Political Decision-Making, ed. Sabine Maasen and Peter Weingart. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005.

"Advancing Both Science, Democracy," commentary on California stem cell politics, with Ramshin Daneshi, Sacramento Bee, May 1, 2005.

“The Political Philosophy of Science Policy,” Essay Review of Philip Kitcher's Science, Truth, and Democracy, in Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy 42, no. 1 (2004): 77-95.



Links

American Political Science Association

Western Political Science Association

Foundations of Political Theory - APSA section website

Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics - APSA section website

Society for Social Studies of Science

Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Arizona State University

Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University

 

 

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