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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Introduction: The Tension between Science and Politics
Author : Jonas Dreger
Published in: The European Commission’s Energy and Climate Policy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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When Woodrow Wilson was still Governor of New Jersey in 1912, he made a statement exposing his strong feelings about his responsibilities to democracy:
What I fear, therefore, is a government of experts. God forbid that in a democratic country we should resign the task and give the government over to experts. What are we for if we are to be scientifically taken care of by a small number of gentlemen who are the only men who understand the job? Because if we don’t understand the job, then we are not a free people. We ought to resign our free institutions and go to school to somebody and find out what it is we are about.
(cited in Smith 1991, pp. 1–2)