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The GM Debate

The GM Debate tells the story of an unprecedented experiment in large-scale public participation: the government-sponsored debate about the possible commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) crops in the UK, which took place in 200203. The book provides a unique and systematic account of the debate process, setting it within its political and intellectual contexts, and examining the practical implications of this development for future public engagement initiatives.

The authors produce a conceptually informed and empirically based evaluation of the debate, drawing upon detailed observation of both public and behind-the-scenes aspects of the process, data on the views of participants in debate events, a survey of public views, and details of media coverage. They analyse the design, implementation and effectiveness of the debate process, and provide a critique of its official findings.

The book will be of interest to a wide readership of researchers, policymakers and students, concerned with cross-disciplinary aspects of risk, decision-making, public engagement, and the governance of technology.

Tom Horlick-Jones is an independent researcher and consultant, currently based at Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. He was team leader of the debate evaluation project.

John Walls is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia.

Gene Rowe is Head of Consumer Science at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich.

Nick Pidgeon is Professor of Applied Psychology in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University.

Wouter Poortinga is an RCUK Academic Fellow in health and risk communication in the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University.

Graham Murdock is Reader in the Sociology of Culture at Loughborough University.

Tim ORiordan is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia.

Genetics and Society

Series editors:

Paul Atkinson, Associate Director of CESAGen, Cardiff University;

Ruth Chadwick, Director of CESAGen, Lancaster University;

Peter Glasner, Professorial Research Fellow for CESAGen at Cardiff University;

Brian Wynne, member of the management team at CESAGen, Lancaster University.

The books in this series, all based on original research, explore the social, economic and ethical consequences of the new genetic sciences. The series is based in the ESRCs Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, the largest UK investment in social-science research on the implications of these innovations. With a mix of research monographs, edited collections, textbooks and a major new handbook, the series will be a major contribution to the social analysis of new agricultural and biomedical technologies.

Forthcoming in the series

Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology (2006)
Contending coalitions, trade liberalisation and standard setting
Joseph Murphy and Les Levidow
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The GM Debate (2007)
Risk, politics and public engagement
Tom Horlick-Jones, John Walls, Gene Rowe, Nick Pidgeon, Wouter Poortinga, Graham Murdock and Tim ORiordan
9780415393225

New Genetics, New Social Formations (2006)
Peter Glasner, Paul Atkinson and Helen Greenslade
9780415393232

New Genetics, New Identities (2006)
Paul Atkinson, Peter Glasner and Helen Greenslade
9780415394079

Local Cells, Global Science (2007)
Embryonic stem cell research in India
Aditya Bharadwaj and Peter Glasner
9780415396097

Growth Cultures (2007)
Life sciences and economic development
Philip Cooke
9780415392235

The GM Debate

Risk, politics and public engagement

Tom Horlick-Jones, John Walls,
Gene Rowe, Nick Pidgeon,
Wouter Poortinga, Graham Murdock
and Tim ORiordan

First published 2007 by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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2007 Tom Horlick-Jones, John Walls, Gene Rowe, Nick Pidgeon, Wouter Poortinga, Graham Murdock and Tim ORiordan

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007.

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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
The GM debate: risk, politics and public engagement/Tom Horlick-Jones... [et al.]
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Genetically modified food. 2. Genetically modified foods Government policy Great Britain. 3. Genetically modified foods Great Britain Public opinion. I. Horlick-Jones, Tom. II. Title: Genetically-modified debate.
TP248.65.F66G62 2007
306.46dc222006025541

ISBN 020394593X Master e-book ISBN

ISBN10: 0415393221 (hbk)
ISBN10: 020394593X (ebk)

ISBN13: 9780415393225 (hbk)
ISBN13: 9780203945933 (ebk)

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Preface

When we began the work of evaluating the GM Nation? public debate in 2002, none of us could have imagined how much of our lives the debate would come to occupy. As we finalise this book, almost four years have passed. Our initial evaluation report was published early in 2004. A stream of papers, addressing different aspects of the evaluation exercise, have already appeared in the technical journals, or are still finding their way through the academic publishing process. We feel it is now the time to publish a monograph-length account of the debate, which provides a considered examination of the key issues, and which will be of interest, we hope, to both scholars and practitioners of various kinds.

The central focus of our work has been on producing a high-quality and rigorous evaluation of the debate process, and one which has allowed us to make a range of practical and specific suggestions about how such an exercise might be organised more effectively in the future. As well as addressing the effectiveness and quality of the debate, the book documents a process of methodological development. The hybrid approach that we adopted to carry out the evaluation was a plural one, combining qualitative and quantitative methods. It was also cross-disciplinary, drawing on a range of methodological and conceptual perspectives from across the social sciences. In terms of evaluation theory, we have attempted to adapt a rigorous, criterion-based approach in ways that have allowed us to learn from the process, and which has been open to the identification of emergent findings.

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