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1 online resource |
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Theories of institutional design |
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Theories of institutional design.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title ; Series information ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; A Crisis of Expertise? ; Critical Elitism ; Expertise in a Deliberative System ; Plan of the Book ; 1 Two Faces of Epistemic Democracy |
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The Epistemic Value of Diversity A Millian Approach ; Conclusion ; 2 Democracy and Problem of Expertise ; What Is Political about Expertise? ; The Expert Threat to Democracy ; The Democratic Promise of Expertise ; Informing Political and Public Deliberation |
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Empowering Democratic Collective Action Telling Truth to Power ; Expertise in a Deliberative System ; Meta-Deliberation ; Contestation ; Conclusion ; 3 Political and Epistemic Authority ; Authority and Judgement ; A Deliberative Account of Epistemic Authority ; Conclusion |
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4 The Problem of Judgement The Problem of Ignorance ; The Problem of Judgement ; Credentials ; Consensus ; Witnessing Debate ; Interests and Biases ; Track Record ; Lay Knowledge ; A 'voucher for truth'? ; Conclusion ; 5 Contestation ; Issue-Articulation ; Oversight |
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Resistance Democracy Resists Democracy ; Conclusion ; 6 Consensus ; Consensus as Revealed Uniformity ; Consensus as Decision Procedure ; Unanimity ; Joint Acceptance ; Deliberative Acceptance ; Expert Deliberation, Consensus and Disagreement |
| Summary |
"Democracies have a problem with expertise. Expert knowledge both mediates and facilitates public apprehension of problems, yet it also threatens to exclude the public from consequential judgments and decisions located in technical domains. This book asks: how can we have inclusion without collapsing the very concept of expertise? How can public judgment be engaged in expert practices in a way that does not reduce to populism? Drawing on deliberative democratic theory and social studies of science, Critical Elitism argues that expert authoritydepends ultimately on the exercise of public judgment in a context in which there are live possibilities for protest, opposition and scrutiny. This account points to new ways of looking at the role of civil society, expert institutions, and democratic innovations in the constitution of expert authority within democratic systems. Using the example of climate science, Critical Elitism highlights not only the risks but also the benefits of contesting expertise"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Democracy -- Philosophy
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Expertise.
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Elite (Social sciences)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Democracy -- Philosophy
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Elite (Social sciences)
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Expertise
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1108176909 |
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9781108176903 |
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9781108177580 |
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1108177581 |
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9781108159906 |
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1108159907 |
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1107194520 |
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9781107194526 |
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1316646254 |
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9781316646250 |
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