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

ISBN-13: 9780367427535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 136 str.

Eva Krick; Cathrine Holst

Opis

Experts and Democratic Legitimacy challenges the technocratic reading of expert bodies, such as central banks, advisory committees and regulatory agencies. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.

Spis treści

1. The socio-political ties of expert bodies. How to reconcile the independence requirement of reliable expertise and the responsiveness requirement of democratic governance  2. Reconciling credibility and accountability: How expert bodies achieve credibility through accountability processes  3. Creating participatory expert bodies. How the targeted selection of policy advisers can bridge the epistemic-democratic divide  4. The role of advisory bodies in the emergence of cross-cutting policy issues: comparing innovation policy in Norway and Germany  5. No epistocracy without representation? The case of the European Central Bank  6. Expertisation or greater representation? Evidence from Norwegian advisory commissions  7. How does expert knowledge travel between EU institutions? The case of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership  8. Epistemic democracy and the quality of government