Policy Legitimacy, Science and Political Authority

Knowledge and Action in Liberal Democracies
Herausgeber: Heazle, Michael; Kane, John

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the tensions between political authority and expert authority in the formation of public policy in liberal democracies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780367332761
• ISBN-10: 0367332760
• Artikelnr.: 56974698

Autorenporträt

Michael Heazle is an Associate Professor with the Griffith Asia Institute and the Griffith University School of Government and International Relations, Australia. His teaching and research interests include International Relations, politics, and the treatment of uncertainty in foreign and domestic policy making. John Kane is a Professor with the Centre of Governance and Public Policy and the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Australia, where he researches and teaches in the fields of political theory, political leadership and US foreign policy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Good Public Policy - On the Interaction of Political and
Expert Authority 2. The Undead Linear Model of Expertise 3. Intelligence
and the Use of Armed Force 4. The Long Goodbye: Science and Policy Making
in the International Whaling Commission 5. On the Interdependency of
Political Authority and Economic Expertise 6. Uneasy Expertise:
Geoengineering, Social Science, and Democracy in the Anthropocene 7.
Democratic and Expert Authority in Public and Environmental Health Policy
8. In Search of Certainty: How Political Authority and Scientific Authority
Interact in Japan's Nuclear Restart Process 9. Drifting to New Worlds: On
Politics and Science in Modern Biotechnology 10. Conclusion: A Democratic
Tension?