Mark B. Brown is professor in the Department of Political Science at California State University, Sacramento. He studied at UC Santa Cruz and the University of Göttingen, and received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University. He is the author of Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation (MIT Press, 2009), and various publications on the politics of expertise, political representation, bioethics, climate change, and related topics. He teaches courses on modern and contemporary political theory, democratic theory, and the politics of science, technology, and the environment.

• 2001 Ph.D., Political Science, Rutgers University.

• 1996 M.A., Political Science, Rutgers University.

• 1990 B.A., Politics, with Honors, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Ein zentraler Punkt der Arbeit an der KFG wird ein sich aktuell intensivierender internationaler Diskurs zu den pluralen Ursprüngen von Demokratie sein. In diesem Diskurs wird deutlich, dass unterschiedliche Demokratiekonzepte auch unterschiedliche Einschätzungen zur Folge haben in Hinsicht darauf, in welchen historischen und kulturellen Kontexten von einer Entstehung von Demokratie die Rede sein kann. Dies ist von zentraler Bedeutung für die Frage, in welchem Sinne demokratische Elemente in altorientalischen Regierungsformen zu konstatieren sind.

Books

• Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. Honorable Mention, 2010 First Book Award, given by the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association.
• Reviewed in Contemporary Political Theory, Science and Public Policy, Social Studies of Science, Sozialwissenschaftliche Literatur Rundschau, Public Understanding of Science, Science Studies, Isis, Minerva, Science as Culture, Environment and Planning A, Metascience, Political Studies, Indian Journal of Political Science, Choice, Environmental Health Perspectives, Chemical Heritage Magazine, Metapsychology, Politikon, Review of Policy Research, Plurilogue, The Bubble Chamber
• Chinese simplified character translation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, 2015.
• Politikberatung und Parlament [Political Advice and Parliament], with Justus Lentsch and Peter Weingart. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2006.
• Reviewed in Soziologische Revue, Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen

Other Publications

• "Speaking for Nature: Hobbes, Latour, and the Democratic Representation of Nonhumans," Science and Technology Studies 31:1 (2018): 31-51.

• "Not Everything Political is Politics: Reflections on the March for Science," Public Seminar, June 2, 2017.

• "Beyond Privatization in U.S. Higher Education," in International Responses to the Academic Manifesto: Reports from 14 Countries, ed. Willem Halffman and Hans Radder. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, Special Report (2017): 9-14.

• "Environmental Science and Politics," in The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, ed. Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, John M. Meyer, and David Schlosberg, 491-504. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

• "Three Approaches to Environmental Political Theory," Contemporary Political Theory 15:3 (2016): e21-e28.

• "Politicizing Science: Conceptions of Politics in Science and Technology Studies," Social Studies of Science 45:1 (2015): 3-30.

• "Climate Science, Populism, and the Democracy and Rejection," in Culture, Politics, and Climate Change: How Information Shapes Our Common Future, ed. Deserai A. Crow and Max Boykoff, 129-145. Routledge Earthscan, 2014.

• “Expertise and Deliberative Democracy,” in Deliberative Democracy: Issues and Cases, ed. Stephen Elstub and Peter McLaverty, 50-68. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

• "The Politics of Science before Scientism," review of Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War, by Andrew Jewett, in Isis 105:1 (2014): 164-166.

• "Science and Democracy," in Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science, ed. Rick Valelly.

  New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

• Review of Science in a Democratic Society, by Philip Kitcher, Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy 51:3 (2013): 389-397.

• "Public University Funding and the Privatization of Politics," Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 7:1 (2013): 21-28.

• "Too Much to Read," Inside Higher Ed, April 20, 2012.

• "What Does It Mean to Have a Right to Research?" Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research, ed. Carmen Sorrentino, 93-100. Milano: Mimesis, 2010.

• "Coercion, Corruption, and Politics in the Commodification of Academic Science," in The Commodification of Academic Research: Science and the Modern University, edited by Hans Radder, 259-276. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews; Krisis

• Brown, Mark B., and David H. Guston, “Science, Democracy, and the Right to Research,” Science and Engineering Ethics 15:3 (2009): 351-366.

• "Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics," American Journal of Bioethics 9:2 (2009): 43-54.

• “Fairly Balanced: The Politics of Representation on Government Advisory Committees,” Political Research Quarterly 61:4 (2008): 547-560. 

• Review of The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics by Roger S. Pielke, Jr., in Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy 46:4 (2008): 485-489.

• "Can Technologies Represent Their Publics?" Technology in Society 29:3 (2007): 327–338.

• "Citizen Panels and the Concept of Representation," Journal of Political Philosophy 14:2 (2006): 203–225

• “The Political Philosophy of Science Policy,” Essay Review of Science, Truth, and Democracy by Philip Kitcher, in Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy 42:1 (2004): 77-95.

• “The Civic Shaping of Technology: California’s Electric Vehicle Program,” Science, Technology, & Human Values 26:1 (2001): 56-81.

• “Conceptions of Science in Political Theory: A Tale of Cloaks and Daggers,” in Vocations of Political Theory, edited by Jason A. Frank and John Tambornino, 189-211. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.