2024 Volume 22 Pages 22-29
It is confirmed through analysis of practices of various examples such as the Food Safety Commission, the Nuclear Regulatory Authority, the Expert Group on Countermeasures against Novel Coronavirus
Infections, and the Subcommittee on Countermeasures against Novel Coronavirus that the political roles played by experts in the policy process related to science and technology are diverse and that such roles have limitations. In order to ensure the appropriate discretion at the expert level, it is pointed out that mutual communication among the experts in different disciplines participating in the decision-making process, the securing inputs from stakeholders in society are important, and that connecting coordination at the expert level with coordination at the political level is indispensable when there are limitations of wider cross-sectoral coordination at the expert level.
