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Experts and Democratic Legitimacy: Tracing the Social Ties of Expert Bodies in Europe book cover

1st Edition

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

Edited By Eva Krick, Cathrine Holst Copyright 2020
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

1. The socio-political ties of expert bodies. How to reconcile the independence requirement of reliable expertise and the responsiveness requirement of democratic governance

Eva Krick and Cathrine Holst

2. Reconciling credibility and accountability: How expert bodies achieve credibility through accountability processes.

Claudia Landwehr and Matthew Wood

3. Creating participatory expert bodies. How the targeted selection of policy advisers can bridge the epistemic-democratic divide.

Eva Krick

4. The role of advisory bodies in the emergence of cross-cutting policy issues: comparing innovation policy in Norway and Germany.

Johan Christensen and Kathia Serrano Velarde

5. No epistocracy without representation? The case of the European Central Bank.

Christopher Lord

6. Expertisation or greater representation? Evidence from Norwegian advisory commissions.

Johan Christensen and Stine Hesstvedt

7. How does expert knowledge travel between EU institutions? The case of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

Guri Rosén and Silje H. Tørnblad

8. Epistemic democracy and the quality of government.

Bo Rothstein

Biography

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.

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