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Critical elitism : deliberation, democracy and the problem of expertise / Alfred Moore, University of Cambridge.
Author
Moore, Alfred James
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
©2017
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ix, 213 pages ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
JC423 .M675 2017
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Subject(s)
Democracy
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Philosophy
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Expertise
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Elite (Social sciences)
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Series
Theories of institutional design
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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.
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ISBN
9781107194526 ((hardcover))
1107194520 ((hardcover))
9781316646250 ((paperback))
1316646254 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016049751
OCLC
980346469
Other standard number
40027343043
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