Critical Elitism

Deliberation, Democracy, and the Problem of Expertise

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19894100
AutoresAlfred Moore (0000-0002-7252-5039, University of Cambridge, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Fecha de publicación2017-06-22
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaCritical Elitism (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108159906
OpenAlexW4246709756
Open LibraryOL34556546M
ISBN9781108159906
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas67

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 authority depends 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

Context (archaeology) · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Elitism · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scrutiny · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law · Public Administration · Elite (Social sciences) · Expertise · History & Theory · Philosophy