Critical elitism : deliberation, democracy and the problem of expertise / Alfred Moore, University of Cambridge.

Author
Moore, Alfred James [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
ix, 213 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Theories of institutional design [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-210) and index.
    Contents
    • Two faces of epistemic democracy
    • Democracy and problem of expertise
    • Political and epistemic authority
    • The problem of judgment
    • Contestation
    • Consensus
    • Institutional innovations.
    ISBN
    • 9781107194526 ((hardcover))
    • 1107194520 ((hardcover))
    • 9781316646250 ((paperback))
    • 1316646254 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016049751
    OCLC
    980346469
    Other standard number
    • 40027343043
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