Experts and Democratic Legitimacy: Tracing the Social Ties of Expert Bodies in Europe - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367427532 ISBN 13: 9780367427535

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019

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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.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367427532
• ISBN 13: 9780367427535
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136
• Herausgeber: Krick Eva, Holst Cathrine
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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