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Mark B. Brown
Associate Professor
Department of Government

I am currently on leave from Sacramento State and working as co-leader of a Junior Research Group on Science, Values, and Democracy at Bielefeld University in Germany. From 2003 to 2008 I taught in the Government Department at Sacramento State. Before that I held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Science & Technology Studies at Bielefeld University. 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.

Curriculum Vitae


Recent Courses



Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation, MIT Press, October 2009.

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

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

"Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics," American Journal of Bioethics 9, no. 2. (2009): 43-54.

Review of The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics by Roger S. Pielke, Jr., in Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy 46, no. 4 (2008): 485-489.

“Fairly Balanced: The Politics of Representation on Government Advisory Committees,” Political Research Quarterly 61, no. 4 (2008): 547-560.

"Can Technologies Represent Their Publics?" Technology in Society 29, no. 3 (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.

“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.

“The Political Philosophy of Science Policy,” Essay Review of Science, Truth, and Democracy by Philip Kitcher, 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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