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Expertise and Participation
This book deals with the role of expertise and public participation in modern governance. It explores the relationship, tensions and compatibility of these increasingly important and partly conflicting sources of legitimacy and authority. By zooming in on the coordinated procedures of environmental policy-making in European consensus systems and by interconnecting theories of democracy, knowledge and science, organisation and decision-making, the author develops institutional solutions to the tensions between epistemic and democratic demands on public policy-making.
Experts and Democratic Legitimacy
Experts and Democratic Legitimacy challenges the technocratic reading of expert bodies, such as central banks, advisory committees and regulatory agencies. Expert contributors ask in what way expert bodies are subject to some of the key pressures in contemporary governance, such as democratisation, politicisation and expertisation. Based on empirical studies, the book traces the multiple social ties of expert bodies and refines the common perception of expert bodies as ‘de-politicised’ institutions that are detached from political interference and societal input. It further theorises the tension and reconcilability between reliable, independent expert knowledge on the one hand and the need for accountability and legitimacy in modern policy-making on the other hand. Refining the detached, de-politicised image of non-majoritarian institutions, Experts and Democratic Legitimacy will be of great interest to scholars of European studies, political and social theory, modern governance and policy-making. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.
Krick-Hansen Kinfolk and Related Families
Louis Edward Krick was born 17 April 1879 in Liberty Township, Kearney Co., Nebraska. He was a descendant of the immigrant ancestors Frantz Krick (born Oct. 1702) in Germany and Anna Catherine Stouden. Louis married Camilla Johanna Hansen 9 January 1901 in Lowell, Nebraska. They were the parents of nine children. Descendants and ancestors lived primarily in Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Colorado and elsewhere.
System, Order, and International Law
This volume maps models of early international legal thought from Machiavelli to Hegel
Becoming Madam Chancellor
The first English-language scholarly book to provide an overview of the Angela Merkel's career and influence.
Verhandlungen im Konsensverfahren
Expertengremien zielen auf Verhandlungsergebnisse, die von einem breiten Spektrum an Fachleuten und Interessenvertretern gemeinsam getragen werden. Ihre Entscheidungsprozesse folgen einem informellen Verfahren, bei dem auf formale Abstimmung in der Regel verzichtet und die kollektive Entscheidung durch das Ausbleiben offener Gegenwehr getroffen wird. Dieser Konsensmodus lässt Machtasymmetrien zwischen den Beteiligten hervortreten und führt zu einer Varianz an tatsächlichen Zustimmungsgraden. Eva Krick zeigt, welche Mechanismen der Einigung im informellen Konsensverfahren wirken, auf welche Weise Akteure ausgeschlossen werden und selektive Zustimmung erreicht wird, unter welchen Umständen aber auch der Interessenausgleich aller Beteiligten möglich wird.
Expertisation and Democracy in Europe
Expertisation and Democracy in Europe provides a much-needed account of the role and re-organisation of expertise and expert knowledge in Europe and the European Union in a broad range of policy spheres, contributing to the debate triggered by the recent crises. It brings novel perspectives to debates on technocracy and our understanding of the relations between knowledge, experts and democracy. The book explores and assesses new and old linkages between knowledge, expertise and democracy, and expands and deepens the current debates by addressing questions such as: What is the role of expertise in Europe? How is knowledge of different kinds embedded in and decisive for democratic practice in...
Social Democracy in the 21st Century
Social democracy is in a process of change as a number of developments challenge its organizational, ideational and electoral basis. This book elaborates on how social democracy should be understood under these changing circumstances, how social democratic parties have responded and what future trajectories await.
The Accountability of Expertise
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).
Decentring European Governance
Conforming neither to the hierarchical and bureaucratic organization of the European nation-state nor the anarchical structure of international organizations, the European Union (EU) and its predecessors provide an exemplary site for developing a decentred approach to the study of governance. The book offers an analysis of the formation and transformation of the EU as an example of governance above the nation-state and is framed by the recognition that the construction of the EU has resulted in variegated and decentred forms of governance. The chapters look at distinct aspects of EU governance to bring to light the influence of elite narratives, scientific rationalities, local traditions and...
