Stephen Brooks, Dorota Stasiak

Policy Expertise in Contemporary Democracies

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Produktbeschreibung

The contributors to this insightful and original volume argue that across the western world in general, the political expert occupies as important a role today as at any time in the past. The ubiquity of information and the fact that the experts and the organizations to which they are affiliated may be viewed as having an ideological agenda has not diminished their role, influence or status. Governments and the media still rely on them for information and advice whilst organizations in civil society need them in order to provide the evidence, arguments and policy recommendations that are essential to having a voice in the public conversation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781409452508
• ISBN-10: 1409452506
• Artikelnr.: 42358774

Autorenporträt

Stephen Brooks is Professor at the University of Windsor and Director of the Ottawa Internship Program at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I Theoretical Issues
Chapter 1 Theoretical Models and Approaches to Understanding the Role of Lobbies and Think Tanks in US Foreign Policy, Donald E.Abelson
Chapter 2 The Political Expert, Tomasz?yro
Chapter 3 Can the Philosopher Be a Political Expert?, MaciejSadowski
Chapter 4 Deliberating Experts Versus Political Representation, WinfriedThaa
Chapter 5 Speaking Truth to Power, StephenBrooks
Part II National Cases
Chapter 6 Do Policy Experts Matter? Lessons from Canada and the United States, Donald E.Abelson
Chapter 7 The Canadian Think Tank Scene, JaniceMackinnon
Chapter 8 Expert Policy Advice in Germany, Martin W.Thunert
Chapter 9 Determinants of German Think Tanks' Public Policy Roles, JosefBraml
Chapter 10 Political Expertise in Poland in the Field of Foreign Policy and the Emergence of Think Tanks, JacekCzaputowicz, DorotaStasiak