How Autocrats Attack Expertise

ISBN-13: 9781032629094 / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

Richard L. Abel

Opis

Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of Trump’s assault on truth and his populist attacks on expertise, as well as scientific and legal opposition to them.

Spis treści

1. The Autocrats’ War on Expertise 2. Politicizing Professional Expertise: The Trump Administration’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic 3. The COVID-19 Pandemic after the 2020 Election 4. A Permanent War on Science?

O autorze

Richard L. Abel is Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA, USA.