THE CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY-ASSESSMENT - A RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTS FOR THE POST-OTA WORLD

Authors
HILL CT
Citation
Ct. Hill, THE CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY-ASSESSMENT - A RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTS FOR THE POST-OTA WORLD, Technological forecasting & social change, 54(2-3), 1997, pp. 191-198
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Business,"Planning & Development
Journal title
Technological forecasting & social change → ACNP
ISSN journal
00401625
Volume
54
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
191 - 198
Database
ISI
SICI code
0040-1625(1997)54:2-3<191:TCOOT->2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) was established to serve the United States Congress. In return, Congress contributed uniquely to t he technology assessment process as it was implemented by OTA. It will be enormously challenging to establish the conditions provided by con gressional stewardship that enabled OTA's uneasy but effective marriag e of expert advice and democratic participation. These congressional c ontributions are analyzed and their implications for several alternati ve approaches to technology assessment institutions are examined. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Inc.