Experts And Democratic Legitimacy
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Author |
: Erik O. Eriksen |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2021-07-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000409543 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000409546 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Accountability of Expertise by : Erik O. Eriksen
Based on in-depth studies of the relationship between expertise and democracy in Europe, this book presents a new approach to how the un-elected can be made safe for democracy. It addresses the challenge of reconciling modern governments’ need for knowledge with the demand for democratic legitimacy. Knowledge-based decision-making is indispensable to modern democracies. This book establishes a public reason model of legitimacy and clarifies the conditions under which unelected bodies can be deemed legitimate as they are called upon to handle pandemics, financial crises, climate change and migration flows. Expert bodies are seeking neither re-election nor popularity, they can speak truth to power as well as to the citizenry at large. They are unelected, yet they wield power. How could they possibly be legitimate? This book is of key interest to scholars and students of democracy, governance, and more broadly to political and administrative science as well as the Science Technology Studies (STS).
Author |
: Alfred Moore |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2017-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107194526 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107194520 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Critical Elitism by : Alfred Moore
This book re-imagines expert authority for an age of critical citizens, and shows how expertise can contribute in a deliberative system.
Author |
: Eva Krick |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2020-05-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000740516 |
ISBN-13 |
: 100074051X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Experts and Democratic Legitimacy by : Eva Krick
Experts and Democratic Legitimacy challenges the technocratic reading of expert bodies, such as central banks, advisory committees and regulatory agencies. Expert contributors ask in what way expert bodies are subject to some of the key pressures in contemporary governance, such as democratisation, politicisation and expertisation. Based on empirical studies, the book traces the multiple social ties of expert bodies and refines the common perception of expert bodies as ‘de-politicised’ institutions that are detached from political interference and societal input. It further theorises the tension and reconcilability between reliable, independent expert knowledge on the one hand and the need for accountability and legitimacy in modern policy-making on the other hand. Refining the detached, de-politicised image of non-majoritarian institutions, Experts and Democratic Legitimacy will be of great interest to scholars of European studies, political and social theory, modern governance and policy-making. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.
Author |
: Fabienne Peter |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2009-01-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134319244 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113431924X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Democratic Legitimacy by : Fabienne Peter
This book offers a systematic treatment of democratic legitimacy, interpreted as a distinct normative concept. It defends the view that democratic legitimacy requires that decisions are made in a process that is politically and epistemically fair.
Author |
: Sabine Maasen |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2006-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781402037542 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1402037546 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Democratization of Expertise? by : Sabine Maasen
‘Scientific advice to politics’, the ‘nature of expertise’, and the ‘relation between experts, policy makers, and the public’ are variations of a topic that currently attracts the attention of social scientists, philosophers of science as well as practitioners in the public sphere and the media. This renewed interest in a persistent theme is initiated by the call for a democratization of expertise that has become the order of the day in the legitimation of research funding. The new significance of ‘participation’ and ‘accountability’ has motivated scholars to take a new look at the science – politics interface and to probe questions such as "What is new in the arrangement of scientific expertise and political decision-making?", "How can reliable knowledge be made useful for politics and society at large, and how can epistemically and ethically sound decisions be achieved without losing democratic legitimacy?", "How can the objective of democratization of expertise be achieved without compromising the quality and reliability of knowledge?" Scientific knowledge and the ‘experts’ that represent it no longer command the unquestioned authority and public trust that was once bestowed upon them, and yet, policy makers are more dependent on them than ever before. This collection of essays explores the relations between science and politics with the instruments of the social studies of science, thereby providing new insights into their re-alignment under a new régime of governance.
Author |
: Michael Heazle |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2015-10-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317420019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317420012 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Policy Legitimacy, Science and Political Authority by : Michael Heazle
Voters expect their elected representatives to pursue good policy and presume this will be securely founded on the best available knowledge. Yet when representatives emphasize their reliance on expert knowledge, they seem to defer to people whose authority derives, not politically from the sovereign people, but from the presumed objective status of their disciplinary bases. This book examines the tensions between political authority and expert authority in the formation of public policy in liberal democracies. It aims to illustrate and better understand the nature of these tensions rather than to argue specific ways of resolving them. The various chapters explore the complexity of interaction between the two forms of authority in different policy domains in order to identify both common elements and differences. The policy domains covered include: climate geoengineering discourses; environmental health; biotechnology; nuclear power; whaling; economic management; and the use of force. This volume will appeal to researchers and to convenors of post-graduate courses in the fields of policy studies, foreign policy decision-making, political science, environmental studies, democratic system studies, and science policy studies.
Author |
: Jerry L. Mashaw |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2018-09-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108421003 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108421008 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reasoned Administration and Democratic Legitimacy by : Jerry L. Mashaw
Explains how administrative government maintains mutual respect among citizens, legitimates administrative government under law, and supports a realistic vision of democracy.
Author |
: Gil Eyal |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2019-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509538867 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509538860 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Crisis of Expertise by : Gil Eyal
In recent political debates there has been a significant change in the valence of the word “experts” from a superlative to a near pejorative, typically accompanied by a recitation of experts’ many failures and misdeeds. In topics as varied as Brexit, climate change and vaccinations there is a palpable mistrust of experts and a tendency to dismiss their advice. Are we witnessing, therefore, the “death of expertise,” or is the handwringing about an “assault on science” merely the hysterical reaction of threatened elites? In this new book, Gil Eyal argues that what needs to be explained is not a one-sided “mistrust of experts” but the two-headed pushmi-pullyu of unprecedented reliance on science and expertise, on the one hand, coupled with increased suspicion, skepticism and dismissal of scientific findings, expert opinion or even whole branches of investigation, on the other. The current mistrust of experts, Eyal argues, is best understood as one more spiral in an on-going, recursive crisis of legitimacy. The “scientization of politics,” of which critics warned in the 1960s, has brought about a politicization of science, specifically of regulatory and policy science, and the two processes reinforce one another in an unstable, crisis-prone mixture. Eyal demonstrates that the strategies designed to respond to the crisis - from an increased emphasis on inclusion of laypeople and stakeholders in scientific research and regulatory decision-making to approaches seeking to generate trust by relying on objective procedures such as randomized controlled trials (RCTs) – end up exacerbating the crisis, while undermining and contradicting one another. This timely book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences and to anyone concerned about the political uses of, and attacks on, scientific knowledge and expertise.
Author |
: Snjezana Priji Samarzija |
Publisher |
: Mimesis |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2018-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 8869771253 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788869771255 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Democracy and Truth by : Snjezana Priji Samarzija
The book is concerned with the recent discussions in social epistemology about epistemic justification of democracy. While standard approaches to epistemic justification of democracy base their thinking on the assumption that democratic legitimacy must be grounded on the production of epistemically high-quality decisions (true, truth-sensitive, truth-conductive, correct, justified, rational, epistemically responsible and so on), this assumption is often challenged by those who do not hold that epistemic justification is either necessary or conducive to democratic legitimacy or, on the other hand, those who accept the necessity of the epistemic justification of democracy but deem that it cannot be reduced to the production of true or justified decisions. Such reactions are highly influenced by a stance regarding the status of experts within the democratic decision-making process. The book offers both a unique perspective on this debate and registers the challenge of a new discipline of applied or real word epistemology.
Author |
: Pierre Rosanvallon |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2011-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400838745 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400838746 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Democratic Legitimacy by : Pierre Rosanvallon
It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But in Democratic Legitimacy, Pierre Rosanvallon, one of today's leading political thinkers, argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. He makes the case that the sources of democratic legitimacy have shifted and multiplied over the past thirty years and that we need to comprehend and make better use of these new sources of legitimacy in order to strengthen our political self-belief and commitment to democracy. Drawing on examples from France and the United States, Rosanvallon notes that there has been a major expansion of independent commissions, NGOs, regulatory authorities, and watchdogs in recent decades. At the same time, constitutional courts have become more willing and able to challenge legislatures. These institutional developments, which serve the democratic values of impartiality and reflexivity, have been accompanied by a new attentiveness to what Rosanvallon calls the value of proximity, as governing structures have sought to find new spaces for minorities, the particular, and the local. To improve our democracies, we need to use these new sources of legitimacy more effectively and we need to incorporate them into our accounts of democratic government. An original contribution to the vigorous international debate about democratic authority and legitimacy, this promises to be one of Rosanvallon's most important books.