Expertise And Democratic Decisionmaking

Author : Sabine Maasen,P. Weingart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402037542

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Democratization of Expertise? by Sabine Maasen,P. Weingart Pdf

‘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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Science
ISBN : PSU:000013062736

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Expertise and Democratic Decisionmaking by Anonim Pdf

Author : Erik O. Eriksen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000409543

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The Accountability of Expertise by Erik O. Eriksen Pdf

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
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107194526

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Critical Elitism by Alfred Moore Pdf

This book re-imagines expert authority for an age of critical citizens, and shows how expertise can contribute in a deliberative system.

Author : Fred Carden
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788178299303

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Knowledge to Policy by Fred Carden Pdf

Investigates the effects of research in the field of international development.. Examines the consequences of 23 research projects funded by Canada's International Development Research Centre in developing countries. Shows how research influence public policy and decision-making and how can contribute to better governance.

Author : Eva Krick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030753301

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Expertise and Participation by Eva Krick Pdf

"Krick's book provides the reader with a rare combination of an intelligent probe into the fundamental problem of the theory of democracy - how to reconcile democratic participation and reliable expertise - and meticulous empirical case studies of three exemplary exercises in public participation. The result is an unusually sophisticated analysis which does not shy away from practical conclusions." -Peter Weingart, University of Bielefeld "Making public policy that combines expert advice and public input is no easy task. Eva Krick's accessible and judicious book is full of insights on why it is so difficult, and how complex democratic societies can do better. Drawing on original empirical research, Krick develops nuanced lessons for the design of participatory expert advisory processes." -Mark B. Brown, California State University, Sacramento "Krick's investigations illuminate the much-underestimated importance of hybrid policy advice bodies for democratic governance. Her grounded approach to institutional design is genuinely original, and truly advances our understanding of how experts, citizens and stakeholders (should) interact." -Cathrine Holst, University of Oslo "In an era of increasing academic specialization, Krick makes a bold and successful effort to integrate issues usually held apart; empirical studies of German and Norwegian cases, theory-development, normative assessment and constructive design proposals. On the basis of a wide theoretical perspective, important aspects of the conventional wisdom and key conceptualizations are challenged, supplemented and refined." -Johan P. Olsen, University of Oslo This book deals with the role of expertise and public participation in modern governance. It explores the relationship, tensions and compatibility of these increasingly important and partly conflicting sources of legitimacy and authority. By zooming in on the coordinated procedures of environmental policy-making in European consensus systems and by interconnecting theories of democracy, knowledge and science, organisation and decision-making, the author develops institutional solutions to the tensions between epistemic and democratic demands on public policy-making. Eva Krick is Researcher at the University of Oslo's ARENA Centre for European Studies, focusing on questions of collective decision-making, democratic legitimacy and the role of knowledge in policy-making.

Author : John Gastil
Publisher : John Gastil
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0865712743

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Democracy in Small Groups by John Gastil Pdf

Drawing from years of experience and study, John Gastil offers a variety of solutions to the problems commonly faced by small, democratic groups. He thoroughly explores the dynamics of practising democracy, including the relationship between speaking rights and listening responsibilities; the importance of full access to information and agenda setting; and ways to practice democracy in personal, family and neighbourhood life. Throughout, he enriches his suggestions with detailed descriptions of the dynamics within a co-operative grocery store. To help readers to choose the democratic structure most appropriate to their group, the book also surveys the full range of democratic processes -- including consensus, majority rule, and proportional outcomes.

Author : Roel in 't Veld
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783642113819

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Knowledge Democracy by Roel in 't Veld Pdf

Knowledge democracy is an emerging concept that addresses the relationships between knowledge production and dissemination, as well as the functions of the media and democratic institutions. Although democracy has been the most successful concept of governance for societies for the last two centuries, representative democracy, which became the hallmark of advanced nation-states, seems to be in decline. Media politics is an important factor in the downfall of the original meaning of representation, yet more direct forms of democracy have not yet found an institutional embedding. Further, the Internet has also drastically changed the rules of the game, and a better educated public has broad access to information, selects for itself which types to examine, and ignores media filters. Some citizens have even become "media" themselves. In a time where the political agendas are filled with combatting so-called evils, new designs for the relationships between science, politics and media are needed. This book outlines the challenges entailed in pursuing a vital knowledge democracy.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264725904

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Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions Catching the Deliberative Wave by OECD Pdf

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions. They convene groups of people representing a wide cross-section of society for at least one full day – and often much longer – to learn, deliberate, and develop collective recommendations that consider the complexities and compromises required for solving multifaceted public issues.

Author : Frank Fischer
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0803933800

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Technocracy and the Politics of Expertise by Frank Fischer Pdf

This book describes the role of technological experts and expertise in a democratic society. It places decision-making strategies - studied in organization theory and policy studies - into a political context. Fischer brings theory to bear on the practical technocratic concerns of these disciplines and hopes to facilitate the development of nontechnocratic discourse within these fields. The book adopts a critical perspective and addresses the restructuring of the policy sciences.

Author : Zeynep Pamuk
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691218939

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Politics and Expertise by Zeynep Pamuk Pdf

A new model for the relationship between science and democracy that spans policymaking, the funding and conduct of research, and our approach to new technologies Our ability to act on some of the most pressing issues of our time, from pandemics and climate change to artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons, depends on knowledge provided by scientists and other experts. Meanwhile, contemporary political life is increasingly characterized by problematic responses to expertise, with denials of science on the one hand and complaints about the ignorance of the citizenry on the other. Politics and Expertise offers a new model for the relationship between science and democracy, rooted in the ways in which scientific knowledge and the political context of its use are imperfect. Zeynep Pamuk starts from the fact that science is uncertain, incomplete, and contested, and shows how scientists’ judgments about what is significant and useful shape the agenda and framing of political decisions. The challenge, Pamuk argues, is to ensure that democracies can expose and contest the assumptions and omissions of scientists, instead of choosing between wholesale acceptance or rejection of expertise. To this end, she argues for institutions that support scientific dissent, proposes an adversarial “science court” to facilitate the public scrutiny of science, reimagines structures for funding scientific research, and provocatively suggests restricting research into dangerous new technologies. Through rigorous philosophical analysis and fascinating examples, Politics and Expertise moves the conversation beyond the dichotomy between technocracy and populism and develops a better answer for how to govern and use science democratically.

Author : Christine Bouneau,David Burigana
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Democracy and science
ISBN : 2807605206

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Experts and Expertise in Science and Technology in Europe Since the 1960s by Christine Bouneau,David Burigana Pdf

Do the politicians actually take decisions, or rather the experts do it in their place? In other words, it is a matter of understanding whether the political stakeholders/representatives simply approve the final stage of a decision procedure led by the experts they have delegated, since they lack cognitive skills or because the experts do not try enough to explicit potentials and risks involved. Here lays the possible loss of democratic legitimacy in the decision-making process. This brings into question the responsibility of a ruling class to which the political representatives and secondarily the experts belong. This book analyses the interplay of these different actors in the political relations among States since the 1960s: this interaction capability becomes a key factor for the international accountability of a country, and above all for the democratic reliability of its decision-making process. Then we have to consider the role of the organized civil society. In that way, expertise provides the basis for the mediation among the States, and then expertise goes for the legitimacy of power practices in all parties engaged, and in the decision-making process inside the democratic arenas.

Author : Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015011708347

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Expertise and Democratic Decisionmaking by Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service Pdf

Author : Monika Ambrus,Karin Arts,Ellen Hey,Helena Raulus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107074781

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The Role of `Experts' in International and European Decision-Making Processes by Monika Ambrus,Karin Arts,Ellen Hey,Helena Raulus Pdf

A broad-gauged analysis of the issues raised by experts' involvement in international and European decision-making processes.

Author : Stephen Elstub
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748643509

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Deliberative Democracy by Stephen Elstub Pdf

Deliberative democracy is the darling of democratic theory and political theory more generally, and generates international interest. In this book, a number of leading democratic theorists address the key issues that surround the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. They outline the problems faced by deliberative democracy in the context of the available empirical evidence, survey potential solutions and put forward new and innovative ideas to resolve these issues.