Are scientists agents of corporate power on public policy? Food and chemicals firms, the International Life Science Institute (ILSI) and the use of science for diffuse lobbying strategies. Demortain, D. In June, 2018. abstract bibtex The notion of "corporate authority" implies that corporations have achieved a certain degree of legitimacy and credibility in their engagement with the workings of policy. One of these sources of legitimacy and credibility is science, indeed a resource that corporations seem to have learnt to accumulate and leverage. Journalistic investigations, documents released in Courts or historical research suggest that the hiring of scientists and scientific consultants as part of corporate lobbying strategies, is common practice, for instance in the chemical industry at large. Some scientists maintain ties with corporations, sometimes over long periods of time, to such an extent that they are in a position of conflict of interest when they are asked, by public authorities, to review data and help assess risk. They are positioned in expert committees or regulatory agencies to, at least implicitly, comfort the defense of corporate interests. They have become but one component of broader lobbying strategies developed by corporations to circle regulators and policy-makers, and shape their thinking. In this paper, I cover the case of one vehicle of such science-borne strategy of regulatory influence, the International Life Science Institute, to show that the power of corporations on public policy should less be measured by their capacity to shape a given decision concerning their product and commercial interests, and to hire a given scientist to influence the outcome of a regulatory process, than to shape the framework of policy-making by acting simultaneously in a diversity of institutional places. 2
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title = {Are scientists agents of corporate power on public policy? {Food} and chemicals firms, the {International} {Life} {Science} {Institute} ({ILSI}) and the use of science for diffuse lobbying strategies},
shorttitle = {Are scientists agents of corporate power on public policy?},
abstract = {The notion of "corporate authority" implies that corporations have achieved a certain degree of legitimacy and credibility in their engagement with the workings of policy. One of these sources of legitimacy and credibility is science, indeed a resource that corporations seem to have learnt to accumulate and leverage. Journalistic investigations, documents released in Courts or historical research suggest that the hiring of scientists and scientific consultants as part of corporate lobbying strategies, is common practice, for instance in the chemical industry at large. Some scientists maintain ties with corporations, sometimes over long periods of time, to such an extent that they are in a position of conflict of interest when they are asked, by public authorities, to review data and help assess risk. They are positioned in expert committees or regulatory agencies to, at least implicitly, comfort the defense of corporate interests. They have become but one component of broader lobbying strategies developed by corporations to circle regulators and policy-makers, and shape their thinking. In this paper, I cover the case of one vehicle of such science-borne strategy of regulatory influence, the International Life Science Institute, to show that the power of corporations on public policy should less be measured by their capacity to shape a given decision concerning their product and commercial interests, and to hire a given scientist to influence the outcome of a regulatory process, than to shape the framework of policy-making by acting simultaneously in a diversity of institutional places. 2},
author = {Demortain, David},
month = jun,
year = {2018},
}
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