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cjel-5781	Fiorino, Daniel J.	Environmental Risk and Democratic Process: A Critical Review	2020	48	.pdf	application/pdf	18333	971	46	Composed of anywhere from a few dozen to a few thousand people, the tribunal would issue a decision that was binding in itself or could be used by gov- ernment authorities as the basis for a decision.29 Flores and Kraft also use ethical, political, and methodological criteria to assess what they term synthetic approaches to deter- mining the acceptability of risk.30 Synthetic approaches use ana- lytical models and empirical data within an interpretative framework, and include risk/cost/benefit analysis, the revealed and expressed preferences approaches, and the natural standards approach to making risk decisions. 538 Risk and Democratic Process dependent capabilities for gathering and assessing technical and analytical information and for acting on that information?'0 A third way that we can allow citizens to participate on a more equal basis involves reassessing our use of formal models for evaluating risks; cost-benefit and other models make risk decisions less ac- cessible to non-experts.	cache/cjel-5781.pdf	txt/cjel-5781.txt