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Sabine Bossert
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Collective agency and the concept of ‘public’ in public involvement: A practice-oriented analysis
The discursive dilemma in biobanking. This additional file provides further information on a theoretical problem in judgment aggregation, known as the ‘discursive dilemma’. First, the discursive dilemma will be introduced in a context-neutral way before its relevance will be demonstrated in an example referring to the context of biobanking [61, 62]. (DOCX 17.4 kb)
Collective agency and the concept of ‘public’ in public involvement: A practice-oriented analysis
Background Public involvement activities are promoted as measures for ensuring good governance in challenging fields, such as biomedical research and innovation. Proponents of public involvement activities include individual researchers as well as non-governmental and governmental organizations. However, the concept of ‘public’ in public involvement deserves more attention by researchers because it is not purely theoretical: it has important practical functions in the guidance, evaluation and translation of public involvement activities. Discussion This article focuses on collective agency as one property a public as a small group of participants in a public involvement activity could exhib…