Experts and Democratic Legitimacy (eBook, PDF)

Tracing the Social Ties of Expert Bodies in Europe
Redaktion: Krick, Eva; Holst, Cathrine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Experts and Democratic Legitimacy challenges the technocratic reading of expert bodies, such as central banks, advisory committees and regulatory agencies. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000740110
• Artikelnr.: 59492847

Autorenporträt

Eva Krick is researcher at ARENA - Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. Her research focuses on European consensus democracies and the relationship of expert knowledge and democratic legitimacy in modern governance. Cathrine Holst is professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, and researcher at ARENA - Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. Her work focuses inter alia on political and social theory, the role of experts in policy-making and on gender policy in Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The socio-political ties of expert bodies. How to reconcile the
independence requirement of reliable expertise and the responsiveness
requirement of democratic governance 2. Reconciling credibility and
accountability: How expert bodies achieve credibility through
accountability processes 3. Creating participatory expert bodies. How the
targeted selection of policy advisers can bridge the epistemic-democratic
divide 4. The role of advisory bodies in the emergence of cross-cutting
policy issues: comparing innovation policy in Norway and Germany 5. No
epistocracy without representation? The case of the European Central Bank
6. Expertisation or greater representation? Evidence from Norwegian
advisory commissions 7. How does expert knowledge travel between EU
institutions? The case of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership 8. Epistemic democracy and the quality of government