Cathrine Holst
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4096360 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cathrine Holst |
| NOMBRES | Cathrine |
| APELLIDO | Holst |
| FIRMA | HOLST C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2231-5826 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Verdensmester i likestillingsdebatt
Democratizing Expertise
Gender Representation in Expert Advisory Bodies
Expert institutions are increasingly expected not only to provide the best professional expertise but also to ensure equal presence of women. Yet while descriptive gender representation in bureaucracies and courts is extensively researched, we largely lack studies of women’s presence on expert advisory bodies. Drawing on large-n data on the composition of Norwegian expert advisory commissions, the paper investigates and evaluates how the share of…
Experts in governance
The Nordic countries have traditionally been seen to share a distinct and successful governance model, combining high administrative capacity, extensive interest-group involvement and active channels for incorporating expert input in policy making. Starting in the 1980s, this model came under pressure. Yet, while changes to the statist and corporatist elements of this model are well documented, we know less about the changing role of expertise in…
The “boy problem” in public policy
The article investigates how gender differences in school performance are conceptualized in recent Swedish and Norwegian public commission reports against the backdrop of an increasing public focus on “problem boys” and boys' underachievement in school as a policy challenge. We found substantive country differences, despite regime similarities and the considerable level of gender equality norms and policy diffusion within the Nordic region. Where…
Philosophy, Policy, and Moral Expertise
What About Fertility? The Unintentional Pro-natalism of a Nordic Country
Combining high birth rates with gender equality and women’s reproductive choice is often put forward as a Nordic success story. We analyze Norwegian governmental commission reports delivered 1984–2017, tracing how fertility issues are approached in policy-making under shifting demographic conditions. We focus on four key topics—pro-natalism, individual versus societal level effects of policies, socioeconomic differences in fertility, and immigrat…
The epistemic quality of expert bodies
The ubiquity of experts in contemporary policy-making has been met with enthusiasm in some quarters, but has also faced severe criticism. Beyond the democratic concerns regarding expert power, critics have raised worries about whether experts actually contribute to increasing the epistemic quality of policies, in line with normative expectations. Yet, so far, limited attention has been paid to the specific conditions under which experts involved …
Expert accountability
When the Norwegian Parliament opened the southeastern Barents Sea for petroleum activity in 2013, it did so based on an impact assessment report prepared by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, 2012–2013). In 2016 the first licenses to drill in this area were awarded, and two environmental organizations sued the Norwegian state for awarding them. To prepare for the court case the organizations commissi…
Worries About Philosopher Experts
Well-functioning modern democracies depend largely on expert knowledge and expert arrangements, but this expertise reliance also causes severe problems for their legitimacy. Somewhat surprisingly, moral and political philosophers have come to play an increasing role as experts in contemporary policymaking. The paper discusses different epistemic and democratic worries raised by the presence of philosopher experts in contemporary governance, relyi…
Nederlag for rusreformen
Rusreformutvalget ble nedsatt av Solberg-regjeringen i 2018 og anbefalte å avkriminalisere bruk av narkotika. Vi plasserer reformforslaget i en historisk kontekst og belyser debatten med vekt på hvordan forskning ble brukt i prosessen. Materialet er høringsuttalelsene som ble levert inn (N = 247). Norsk narkotikapolitikk er tuftet på visjonen om et harmonisk samarbeid mellom helse, sosial og justis. Forskere fra «den samfunnsvitenskapelige opposi…
Science Advice in an Environment of Trust
This paper examines the conditions of trustworthy science advice mechanisms, in which scientists have a mandated role to inform public policymaking. Based on the literature on epistemic trust and public trust in science, we argue that possession of relevant expertise, justified moral and political considerations, as well as proper institutional design are conditions for trustworthy science advice. In order to assess these conditions further, we e…
Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy
This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of recent research on the policy role of experts with discussions in political philosophy and the philosophy of expertise. Starting with the fact that well-functioning democracies require experts and expert knowledge, the book examines two types of objections against granting experts a larger role in pol…
Kommisjonen som skulle hjelpe oss ut av krisen
Warriors against the 'War on Drugs
International drug policy is undergoing change, and certain types of lay experts, those who have experienced problems with drug use, are getting a more important role. By drawing on 30 in-depth interviews with representatives from drug users' organizations, bureaucrats and researchers, we explore the rise of lay experts in Norwegian drug policy. We show how these lay experts' personal credibility is based on a history of serious drug problems, in…
Descriptive representation of women in international courts
Should those who represent and govern us be similar to us? Several legal scholars have recently argued that the composition of international courts needs to better reflect the different experiences and social cleavages in society at large and called for measures to ensure increased descriptive representation. The idea is that when the composition of office holders in a governing institution does not “mirror” the distribution of certain descriptiv…
Experts and Democratic Legitimacy
Deliberative Systems Theory and Citizens’ Use of Online Media
Deliberative systems theory is a promising candidate for a normative theory of democracy that combines ideal requirements with feasibility. Yet, recent theoretical elaborations and studies of citizens’ online media use inspired by the theory suffer from an incomplete account of the public sphere’s epistemic function, too rough interpretations of participatory levels, shortcomings in the understanding of online media, and a context-insensitive not…
Fra Helga Hernes til #metoo
Statsviteren Carol Pateman (1989) har skrevet om et feministisk dilemma hun kaller «Wollstonecraft’s dilemma», etter filosofen Mary Wollstonecraft. For kvinnelige tenkere arter dilemmaet seg gjerne på følgende måte: Hvis de skriver for mye om kvinners situasjon spesielt, blir tenkningen deres betraktet som partikulær, begrenset og partisk; den bærer ikke utover egen gruppe og «kvinners perspektiv». Hvis kvinnelige tenkere derimot legger kjønn til…
How Do Advocacy Think Tanks Relate to Academic Knowledge? The Case of Norway
Think tanks often present themselves as contributors to a more reflective and informed political debate and their policy advice as based on knowledge and research. Yet, they also claim to be alternatives to university research and research institutes and often use knowledge and expertise to pursue explicitly ideological agendas. How do think tanks handle this balancing act of knowledge provision and ideological commitment? How do they relate to a…
Når samfunnsforskere anbefaler politikk
Mange samfunnsvitere forsker på politikk – som hovedtema eller i forlengelsen av andre forskningsinteresser. Når samfunnsforskere studerer politikk, konsentrerer de seg typisk om å fortolke og forklare politiske prosesser og utfall, men ofte berører politikkforskning også spørsmål om hva slags politikk som er «god», eller mindre god, inkludert politikkanbefaling. Forskningsprosjekter jeg selv er med på, om likestillingspolitikk, narkotikapolitikk…
Deliberation after Consensus
This editorial introduction presents an overview of the themes explored in the symposium on Deliberation after Consensus. For all the talk of its obsolescence and irrelevance, the concept of consensus still remains centrally contested through generations of deliberative democracy scholarship. In face of criticism for being neither empirically feasible nor normatively desirable, some deliberative theorists have moved away from consensus-oriented t…
Epistemic democracy and the role of experts
Democratic State and Democratic Society
After the optimism following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world has seen more of a democratic backlash. But despite the backlashes, in some societies the stability of democracy does not seem to be threatened. Why is this so? One common answer points to civic culture, a shared feeling of responsibility for the common fate of citizens. An alternative, to be explored in this volume, is that the stability of democratic rule is anchored in its int…
The socio-political ties of expert bodies. How to reconcile the independence requirement of reliable expertise and the responsiveness requirement of democratic governance
This study questions the traditional story of the detachment and independence of expert bodies such as agencies, central banks and expert committees. It directs attention to the numerous institutional links with elected bodies and societal actors that we typify as mechanisms of stakeholder inclusion, government control and public and parliamentary scrutiny. With reference to EU examples, we illustrate that these socio-political ties of expert bod…
Epistemic democracy and the role of experts
The socio-political ties of expert bodies. How to reconcile the independence requirement of reliable expertise and the responsiveness requirement of democratic governance
This study questions the traditional story of the detachment and independence of expert bodies such as agencies, central banks and expert committees. It directs attention to the numerous institutional links with elected bodies and societal actors that we typify as mechanisms of stakeholder inclusion, government control and public and parliamentary scrutiny. With reference to EU examples, we illustrate that these socio-political ties of expert bod…
The Expert-Executive Nexus in the EU
Expertise has played a pivotal role in EU executives since the European Union (EU) was established, but its significance is arguably increasing and takes on new shapes. This issue explores the role and use of expert knowledge in decision-making in and by EU executive institutions
The epistemic quality of expert bodies
The ubiquity of experts in contemporary policy-making has been met with enthusiasm in some quarters, but has also faced severe criticism. Beyond the democratic concerns regarding expert power, critics have raised worries about whether experts actually contribute to increasing the epistemic quality of policies, in line with normative expectations. Yet, so far, limited attention has been paid to the specific conditions under which experts involved …
Warriors against the 'War on Drugs
International drug policy is undergoing change, and certain types of lay experts, those who have experienced problems with drug use, are getting a more important role. By drawing on 30 in-depth interviews with representatives from drug users' organizations, bureaucrats and researchers, we explore the rise of lay experts in Norwegian drug policy. We show how these lay experts' personal credibility is based on a history of serious drug problems, in…
Cynical or Deliberative? An Analysis of the European Commission’s Public Communication on Its Use of Expertise in Policy-Making
The European Commission has faced increasing criticism that its use of expertise in policy-making is undemocratic and politicized. In response to critics, the Commission has produced a number of publicly available documents where its expert policies and practices are outlined and discussed. Cynics view public communications of this nature with skepticism, as organizations tend to adopt “smooth talk” and cosmetic rhetoric designed to placate criti…
The “boy problem” in public policy
The article investigates how gender differences in school performance are conceptualized in recent Swedish and Norwegian public commission reports against the backdrop of an increasing public focus on “problem boys” and boys' underachievement in school as a policy challenge. We found substantive country differences, despite regime similarities and the considerable level of gender equality norms and policy diffusion within the Nordic region. Where…
Expert accountability
When the Norwegian Parliament opened the southeastern Barents Sea for petroleum activity in 2013, it did so based on an impact assessment report prepared by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, 2012–2013). In 2016 the first licenses to drill in this area were awarded, and two environmental organizations sued the Norwegian state for awarding them. To prepare for the court case the organizations commissi…
Deliberative Systems Theory and Citizens’ Use of Online Media
Deliberative systems theory is a promising candidate for a normative theory of democracy that combines ideal requirements with feasibility. Yet, recent theoretical elaborations and studies of citizens’ online media use inspired by the theory suffer from an incomplete account of the public sphere’s epistemic function, too rough interpretations of participatory levels, shortcomings in the understanding of online media, and a context-insensitive not…
How Do Advocacy Think Tanks Relate to Academic Knowledge? The Case of Norway
Think tanks often present themselves as contributors to a more reflective and informed political debate and their policy advice as based on knowledge and research. Yet, they also claim to be alternatives to university research and research institutes and often use knowledge and expertise to pursue explicitly ideological agendas. How do think tanks handle this balancing act of knowledge provision and ideological commitment? How do they relate to a…
Jürgen Habermas on public reason and religion
In his recent writings, Jürgen Habermas asks how the liberal constitutional principle of separation between church and state, religion and politics, should be understood. The problem, he holds, is that a liberal state guarantees equal freedom for religious communities to practise their faith, while at the same time shielding the political bodies that take collectively binding decisions from religious influences. This means that religious citizens…
Democratizing Expertise
Worries About Philosopher Experts
Well-functioning modern democracies depend largely on expert knowledge and expert arrangements, but this expertise reliance also causes severe problems for their legitimacy. Somewhat surprisingly, moral and political philosophers have come to play an increasing role as experts in contemporary policymaking. The paper discusses different epistemic and democratic worries raised by the presence of philosopher experts in contemporary governance, relyi…
Carl-Göran Heidegren
Nancy Fraser i kritikkens landskap
In part I of the article I introduce six different notions of social critique. In part II I connect positions in feminist theory to these notions of critique. Part III is a discussion of Nancy Fraser’s notion of critique. I argue that Fraser lately has defended feminist critique as a social critique in need of moralphilosphical justification, whereas she previously argued for ‘social criticism without philosphy’. In the latter part of the article…
Global solidaritet og rettferdighetssans
Statsfeminismen og nasjonalstaten
atsfeminisme betyr, kort sagt
Bokomtaler
Norske intellektuelles syn på EU
Hjernevask
Variables and Challenges in Assessing EU Experts’ Performance
Expert advice in political processes is supposed to improve decisions. If expertise fails in this function, a legitimacy problem occurs: granting political power to experts may be defensible, but only on the grounds that it contributes to enlightening political processes and facilitate problem-solving. The paper provides a theoretical exploration of four variables that are key when assessing the epistemic quality of expert deliberations: the degr…
The Expert-Executive Nexus in the EU
Expertise has played a pivotal role in EU executives since the European Union (EU) was established, but its significance is arguably increasing and takes on new shapes. This issue explores the role and use of expert knowledge in decision-making in and by EU executive institutions
Cynical or Deliberative? An Analysis of the European Commission’s Public Communication on Its Use of Expertise in Policy-Making
The European Commission has faced increasing criticism that its use of expertise in policy-making is undemocratic and politicized. In response to critics, the Commission has produced a number of publicly available documents where its expert policies and practices are outlined and discussed. Cynics view public communications of this nature with skepticism, as organizations tend to adopt “smooth talk” and cosmetic rhetoric designed to placate criti…
Jürgen Habermas on public reason and religion
In his recent writings, Jürgen Habermas asks how the liberal constitutional principle of separation between church and state, religion and politics, should be understood. The problem, he holds, is that a liberal state guarantees equal freedom for religious communities to practise their faith, while at the same time shielding the political bodies that take collectively binding decisions from religious influences. This means that religious citizens…
Norsk sosiologforenings hederspris for 2016 til Trond Petersen
Advisory commissions, academic expertise and democratic legitimacy
Commissions appointed to examine and propose solutions to major policy problems play a vital role in policy formulation in the Nordic countries. Whereas existing accounts emphasize the corporatist and statist features of these bodies, this article investigates the changing role of academic knowledge within commissions. It does so through an empirical and normative analysis of Norwegian ad hoc advisory commissions appointed during the period 1967–…
Democratic State and Democratic Society
After the optimism following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world has seen more of a democratic backlash. But despite the backlashes, in some societies the stability of democracy does not seem to be threatened. Why is this so? One common answer points to civic culture, a shared feeling of responsibility for the common fate of citizens. An alternative, to be explored in this volume, is that the stability of democratic rule is anchored in its int…
The socio-political ties of expert bodies. How to reconcile the independence requirement of reliable expertise and the responsiveness requirement of democratic governance
This study questions the traditional story of the detachment and independence of expert bodies such as agencies, central banks and expert committees. It directs attention to the numerous institutional links with elected bodies and societal actors that we typify as mechanisms of stakeholder inclusion, government control and public and parliamentary scrutiny. With reference to EU examples, we illustrate that these socio-political ties of expert bod…
Deliberation after Consensus
This editorial introduction presents an overview of the themes explored in the symposium on Deliberation after Consensus. For all the talk of its obsolescence and irrelevance, the concept of consensus still remains centrally contested through generations of deliberative democracy scholarship. In face of criticism for being neither empirically feasible nor normatively desirable, some deliberative theorists have moved away from consensus-oriented t…
Epistemic democracy and the role of experts
Fra Helga Hernes til #metoo
Statsviteren Carol Pateman (1989) har skrevet om et feministisk dilemma hun kaller «Wollstonecraft’s dilemma», etter filosofen Mary Wollstonecraft. For kvinnelige tenkere arter dilemmaet seg gjerne på følgende måte: Hvis de skriver for mye om kvinners situasjon spesielt, blir tenkningen deres betraktet som partikulær, begrenset og partisk; den bærer ikke utover egen gruppe og «kvinners perspektiv». Hvis kvinnelige tenkere derimot legger kjønn til…
How Do Advocacy Think Tanks Relate to Academic Knowledge? The Case of Norway
Think tanks often present themselves as contributors to a more reflective and informed political debate and their policy advice as based on knowledge and research. Yet, they also claim to be alternatives to university research and research institutes and often use knowledge and expertise to pursue explicitly ideological agendas. How do think tanks handle this balancing act of knowledge provision and ideological commitment? How do they relate to a…
Når samfunnsforskere anbefaler politikk
Mange samfunnsvitere forsker på politikk – som hovedtema eller i forlengelsen av andre forskningsinteresser. Når samfunnsforskere studerer politikk, konsentrerer de seg typisk om å fortolke og forklare politiske prosesser og utfall, men ofte berører politikkforskning også spørsmål om hva slags politikk som er «god», eller mindre god, inkludert politikkanbefaling. Forskningsprosjekter jeg selv er med på, om likestillingspolitikk, narkotikapolitikk…
Descriptive representation of women in international courts
Should those who represent and govern us be similar to us? Several legal scholars have recently argued that the composition of international courts needs to better reflect the different experiences and social cleavages in society at large and called for measures to ensure increased descriptive representation. The idea is that when the composition of office holders in a governing institution does not “mirror” the distribution of certain descriptiv…
Experts and Democratic Legitimacy
Deliberative Systems Theory and Citizens’ Use of Online Media
Deliberative systems theory is a promising candidate for a normative theory of democracy that combines ideal requirements with feasibility. Yet, recent theoretical elaborations and studies of citizens’ online media use inspired by the theory suffer from an incomplete account of the public sphere’s epistemic function, too rough interpretations of participatory levels, shortcomings in the understanding of online media, and a context-insensitive not…
Science Advice in an Environment of Trust
This paper examines the conditions of trustworthy science advice mechanisms, in which scientists have a mandated role to inform public policymaking. Based on the literature on epistemic trust and public trust in science, we argue that possession of relevant expertise, justified moral and political considerations, as well as proper institutional design are conditions for trustworthy science advice. In order to assess these conditions further, we e…
Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy
This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of recent research on the policy role of experts with discussions in political philosophy and the philosophy of expertise. Starting with the fact that well-functioning democracies require experts and expert knowledge, the book examines two types of objections against granting experts a larger role in pol…
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