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Socio-technical transition governance and public opinion: the case of passenger transport in Finland
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posted on 2023-06-09, 00:02 authored by Paul Upham, Venla Virkamaki, Paula Kivimaa, Mikael Hilden, Zia WadudAs a governance perspective, transition management views the engagement of a wide variety of stakeholders in policy development as a necessary element in furthering sustainability through enhanced social learning. Yet as a literature it has paid relatively little attention to public consultation on socio-technical change. Here we set transition management in the context of longstanding debates in science and technology studies, technology assessment and deliberative democracy. Empirically, we use national survey data on Finnish public opinion of state support for future transport options. Showing how transport practices and attitudes to transport innovation policy vary with both demography and geography, we argue that these differences have implications for policy legitimacy. We suggest that, both given and despite the practical difficulties of deliberative democracy, use of participative opinion surveying to better understand social groups with needs and interests that differ from national averages, may help to enhance policy legitimacy and hence the success of transition management.
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Journal of Transport GeographyISSN
0966-6923Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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46Page range
210-219Department affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
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2016-01-15Usage metrics
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