Involving stakeholders in the risk regulation process: the example of ANSES

LUNEAU ; FOURNIAU

Type de document
ARTICLE A COMITE DE LECTURE REPERTORIE DANS BDI (ACL)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
LUNEAU ; FOURNIAU
Résumé / Abstract
Firstly, we will describe how ANSES involves stakeholders. We will show that the agency's participatory framework articulates a dialogic, consultative and informative procedure. Then, we will explore the reasons why stakeholders participate in ANSES' committees. While the interviewed stakeholders perceive their membership at the agency as a key measure for strengthening their status in the field of risk governance, they point out the difficulty of seeing whether their participation has influenced ANSES' strategy. We argue that this ?lack of clarity' follows from the segmentation of the three participatory procedures, which undermines the stakeholders' ability to obtain a broad understanding of how the agency operates. Furthermore, since ANSES is responsible only for risk assessment, stakeholders at the agency's committees see merely a fraction of a process that operates via other ?arenas' such as ministries. As a consequence, stakeholders must have a strong ?interactional expertise' to be able to grasp the slightest change in the agency's strategy, which benefits in the first hand stakeholders that have been deeply involved in the French risk governance.
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