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Pergamon Furures, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 17-31, 1997 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd All rights reserved. Printed in Great Britain 0016-3287/97 17.00 + 0.00 PII: SO01 6-3287 96)00063-8 Y IENC E S A IO IC L EW K ’ and Elaine McCarthy The close relationship betwee n scientific expertise and regulatory policy in cer- tain controver sial and public areas has prompted commentators to suggest the concept of ‘regulat ory science’. Ho wever , definition is generally constrained either to the concerns of regulatory science or to its context. This paper pro- poses an approach to regulatory science which is both empirically- based and allows a more theoretical treatment of the new condi tions of scientific and regulatory activity. A particular case-study of the Brit ish agrochemicals sector is presented in terms of a five-way analytical framewo rk for regulatory scienc e. The paper conclud es by consid ering the wider relevance of regulatory science for future soci ological and policy res earch. 0 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd One way to deal with thes e assaults on s c ienti sts and s c ientifi c tr uth wo uld be to de fine a new branc h of s c ienc e, c alled r eg ulatory s c ience, in whic h the norms of s c ientific proof are les s de mand ing than the norms in ordinary s c ience .2 T here is no s uc h thing as a regulatory s c ience. [It] is an art and a very diffi cult one....’ T his pa pe r c onsiders the c onc ept of ‘regulatory s c ience’ and its prac tica l and theoretica l significance wit hin c ontemporary debates c onc erni ng s cience and r egulator y policy. An expa nding po li cy and s oc iologic al literature has examined the r ela tionship be tween s c ienti fi c evidenc e and the making of policy dec is ions -both at the level of government 4 and the judiciary.5 T his li terature has r egularl y foc us ed o n s c ientifi c c ontrover sies and Ala n Ir win and Henry Rothstein are in the Departmen t of Human Science s/CRICT, Brunei University, Uxbridg e, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK Tel: +44 1895 274000; fax: +44 1895 232806). Steven Yearley an d Elaine McCarthy are in the Departmen t of Sociology, University of York, Heslington, York YOl SDD, UK. 17

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