Einzelstück 22 - Citizen Participation in Decision-Making on Complex and Sensitive Issues? Experiences with Xenotransplantation

[…] One of the most important issues highlighted by CIT-PART is that citizen participation, in terms of PTA, was rarely used in xenotransplantation policy-making. Civil servants and experts were the actors most heavily involved in policy development. They framed xenotransplantation primarily as technical ans scientific problem. The public, on the other hand, was only actively involved to a small degree. Although the three cases of PTA (CA, CH, and NL) did not have a direct impact on decision-making in the strictest sense, they did affect the way that the topic was discussed and handled. [...] (executive summary)