LamprouMemo13

What do harmonization procedures & outcomes, concerning nanotechnology standards, show about the politics, democracy and participation, and the power structures in EU and US? || Explore documents and reports from policy procedures in EU and the US. || The decline of the public sphere. The illusion of equal, open, accessible public spheres for participation. That public spheres are spaces created by social movements. || Public sphere criticisms and connections to social movements literature (see for example Fraiser)  ||
 * Aims ||  Questions  ||  Data Collection  ||  Emerging Arguments  ||  Literatures  ||
 * Generate new knowledge about public participation in policy making. ||  How do policies in different countries develop?
 * Generate new knowledge about differences in policy cultures. || ||  Conduct interviews with participants in panels and workshops as well as with policy makers  ||  Different policy cultures appear to have differences in policy making procedures, structures organizations and outcomes  ||  Various of literatures on comparative studies in policy making (Jasanoff)  ||
 * Generate new knowledge about standards development and harmonization processes. || ||  Conduct participant observation in EU workshop and ANSI panel  ||  There is a shift in standards development from a public issue to a private one.  ||  Because of lack in standards literature concerning nanotech standards literature on technology and food and agriculture standards (e.g. Busch)  ||