Improving the Politics in Democracies

From: The Oppinionated Middle Ground

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In this chapter, Cowan examines the tension between scientific expertise and democratic governance, tracing historical cases of knowledge distortion from the 1900s through the 2021 Canadian federal election.

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John Scott Cowan

John Cowan is a physiologist, professor, and university administrator who also has worked extensively in labour relations and written widely on society, public policy, defence and international tensions. VP at U of Ottawa, and later Queens’ U, he was Principal at RMC 1999-2008. He currently resides in Kingston, Ontario.