The Accountability of Expertise

NOTE EDITORE

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).

SOMMARIO

1. Introduction: Making the un-elected safe for democracy Erik O. Eriksen 2. Strategies for Repairing legitimacy deficits Erik O. Eriksen 3. Reasoned Administration: The European Union, the United States, and the project of democratic governance Jerry L. Mashaw 4. Power, Money, Knowledge and the European Central Bank Christopher Lord 5. Reputational Threats and Democratic Responsiveness of Regulatory Agencies Tobias Bach, Marlene Jugl, Dustin Köhler and Kai Wegrich 6. Accountability and Inter-institutional Respect: The case of independent regulatory agencies Andreas Eriksen 7. Accountability beyond Control: How can parliamentary hearings connect the elected and the unelected? Andreas Eriksen and Alexander Katsaitis 8. Expertise and the General will in Democratic Republicanism Kjartan Koch Mikalsen 9. Values in Expert Reasoning: A pragmatic approach Torbjørn Gundersen 10. Experts: From technocrats to representatives Erik O. Eriksen

AUTORE

Erik O. Eriksen is Professor of Political Science and former director of ARENA, Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781032007601
• Collana: Routledge Studies on Democratising Europe
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 0.66 lb
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 1 b/w image, 6 tables and 1 line drawing
• Pagine Arabe: 202
• Pagine Romane: xiv