Expertisation and Democracy in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367885878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 230 str.

Magdalena Gora; Cathrine Holst; Marta Warat

Opis

This book provides a much-needed account of the role and re-organization of expertise and expert knowledge in Europe and the European Union in a broad range of policy spheres, contributing to the debate triggered by the recent crises.

Spis treści

Introduction: Expertisation and Democracy in Europe [Magdalena Góra, Cathrine Holst and Marta Warat]

1. Exploring the Connection between Knowledge and Democracy [Christopher Lord]

2. Reassessing the Monnet Method: Technocratic or Deliberative? [John. R. Moodie]

3. The Expertisation of Stakeholder Involvement in EU Policy Making [Åse Gornitzka and Eva Krick]

4. The European Commission Expert Groups – More than Expertise [Silje Hexeberg Tørnblad]

5. The Role of Think Tanks and Experts in Legitimisation of the European Neighbourhood Policy [Magdalena Góra]

6. The Role of Expertise in the European Refugee Crisis [Espen D. H. Olsen]

7. Unpacking Gender Expertise: The Case of the European Women’s Lobby [Helena Seibicke and Cathrine Holst]

8. Uneasy Relation: Gender Expertise and Gender Equality Policy in Poland [Marta Warat]

9. The Media as Public Intermediaries of Knowledge in Europe: From Deliberation to Democratic Legitimation [Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jörg Trenz]

10. Why Does Democracy Need Participation? Participatory Budgeting in Medellin, Colombia and Krakow, Poland [Anna Bednarczyk and Inga Hajdarowicz]

Afterward: Democratic Theory, Knowledge Theory and Institutional Design: Lessons From Europe [Cathrine Holst]

O autorze

Magdalena Góra is an Associate Professor at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

Cathrine Holst is Research Professor at ARENA Centre for European Studies and Professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway.

Marta Warat is Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.