“Whose War? Whose Peace…”
Yaron Ezrahi is an Israeli political theorist best known for his work on the relations between modern science and the rise of the modern liberal democratic state and the political uses of scientific knowledge and authority. In Ezrahi’s publications between 1971 and 1990, he established the impact of the scientific revolution on the rise of the instrumental concept of politics in the modern democratic state and on its commitments to the transparency and accountability of power, the ideological neutrality of the state, deliberative public discourse and the rationality of public policy. Ezrahi has shown that despite such commitments, the political uses of scientific authorities and experts as political resources have often eclipsed the application of relevant bodies of knowledge in public policy.
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