The politics of expertise
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The politics of expertise
(Routledge studies in social and political thought, 82)
Routledge, 2015, c2014
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-326) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book collects case studies and theoretical papers on expertise, focusing on four major themes: legitimation, the aggregation of knowledge, the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of power. It focuses on the institutional means by which the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of power are connected, and how the problems of aggregating knowledge and legitimating it are solved by these structures. The radical novelty of this approach is that it places the traditional discussion of expertise in democracy into a much larger framework of knowledge and power relations, and in addition begins to raise the questions of epistemology that a serious account of these problems requires.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I: Some Basic Theory 1. What is the Problem with Experts? 2. Political Epistemology, Expertise, and the Aggregation of Knowledge Part II: Aggregation 3. Truth and Decision 4. Expertise and Political Responsibility: The Columbia Shuttle Catastrophe 5. Balancing Expert Power: Two Models for the Future of Politics 6. Quasi-Science and the State: "Governing Science" in Comparative Perspective 7. The Pittsburgh Survey and the Survey Movement: An Episode in the History of Expertise Part III: Expert Institutions 8. From Edification to Expertise: Sociology as a "Profession" 9. Scientists as Agents 10. Expertise and the Process of Policy Making: The EU's New Model of Legitimacy 11. Was Real Existing Socialism a Premature Form of Rule by Experts? 12. Blind Spot? Weber's Concept of Expertise and the Perplexing Case of China Part IV: Collective Heuristics: Expertise as System 13. Double Heuristics and Collective Knowledge: The Case of Expertise 14. Normal Accidents of Expertise 15. Expertise in Post-Normal Science
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