Lars Thorup Larsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 294887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lars Thorup Larsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lars Thorup |
| FAMILY NAME | Larsen |
| SIGNATURE | LARSEN L T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4100-5425 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“Do what that expert says – until you know better”: How people gauge expert advice
It is often suggested that people have stopped listening to science and expert knowledge on issues like climate change or vaccines and replaced established expertise with a polarized landscape of social media bubbles. While surveys track trust in science, how lay people assess expertise is less clear. This article develops a theory of how lay people gauge expert advice through a combination of sociological concepts of authority and expertise as w…
Epistemological autonomy: How lay people do their own research to keep experts at arm’s length
With growing worries about skepticism and distrust in science, we see a tension between lay people being driven to accept science and expert advice while populist politicians such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reject established expertise and advise parents to “do their own research” on vaccinations. Recent literature investigates how individuals in particular political or cultural contexts navigate this tension either through “epistemological individ…
Do Populists Listen to Expertise? A Five-Country Study of Authority, Arguments, and Expert Sources
Across diverse policy domains, there is broad concern about whether trust in science and expertise has eroded during the past decade. Using quota-based surveys with over 7,500 respondents across five countries and preregistered vignette experiments, we investigate what persuades populists and non-populists to accept expert advice. We find first that populism is associated with less willingness to accept expert advice, yet with variation between c…
For Medicinal Purposes: Whose Advice Exerts Authority on Medical Marijuana
Citizens are embedded in legal systems in which the authority of different experts is normally given preference over citizens' opinions about medical marijuana and other medical issues. Yet, citizens may reject expert authority if they consider themselves to be competent based on their knowledge or social position. Thus, we are led to ask: In the context of direct democracy, what forms of expert authority-if any-does a historically privileged sub…
Connective and Tactfully Tactical: Connective Tactics and Professional Authority in Doctor-Patient Relationships
Medical authority is often thought to be threatened by lay access to information, but how does professional authority work when citizens have more knowledge and choices? We seek to understand how professional authority works in doctor-patient relationships and what each side does to navigate medical encounters. Our abductive study is relational as it builds on qualitative interviews with both doctors and patients. While doctors and patients each …
Not merely the absence of disease: A genealogy of the WHO’s positive health definition
The 1948 constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. It was a bold and revolutionary health idea to gain international consensus in a period characterized by fervent anti-communism. This article explores the genealogy of the health definition and demonstrates how it was possible to expand the scope of health, …
Advice Not Safely Ignored: Professional Authority and the Strength of Legitimate Complexity
It is widely debated how ordinary citizens understand and use different types of knowledge and whether the authority of professional expertise is challenged by the spread of information. These debates underline that we know too little about how professional expertise is understood from the citizens' point of view and how citizens decide whether or not to accept various types of expertise as authoritative. This article investigates professional au…
Introduction to Special Issue: Professional-Citizen Relations
Introduction to Special Issue: Professional-Citizen Relations
No Third Parties. The Medical Profession Reclaims Authority in Doctor-Patient Relationships
A key aspect of the classic doctor-patient relationship is the idea that doctors exert a professional authority through medical expertise while also taking care of the patient. Some professional organizations have held that “no third parties” should come between doctor and patient, be it governments or corporations. The sanctity of medical authority has also met resistance, and doctors are often said to face more demanding patients today with the…
The problematization of fertility treatment: Biopolitics and IVF policy in Denmark
With the demographic challenges facing many European states, one would perhaps expect the state to invoke a biopolitical imperative to ‘faire vivre’, as Foucault termed it, and attempt to regulate birth rates. This expectation is too simple, however, as this article shows both theoretically and empirically. In order better to understand the possible counterweights to biopolitical concerns about the birth rate, the conceptual distinction between b…
Mapping reproduction
Redaktørernes forord
Guvernementalisering af velfærdsprofessionerne
Traditionelt opfattes professioners autonomi som en direkte følge af den viden, de besidder, samt af de særlige opgaver denne viden tillader dem at løse, ikke mindst for staten. Denne autonomi er imidlertid sat under pres igennem talrige bølger af reformer i velfærdsstaten, hvad enten der er tale om reformer med henblik på bedre opgavevaretagelse eller om simple nedskæringer. Mens det er velbeskrevet i professionslitteraturen, hvorledes velfærdsr…
The puzzle of permissiveness: Understanding Policy Processes Concerning Morality Issues
The growing interest in morality politics has spurred a large number of studies on individual morality issues and the gradual shift from restrictive to permissive regulation across Western Europe. Several studies have further pointed to the changing role of religion as the main cause of permissive policy shifts. However, seen in a comparative perspective across four countries and five morality issues, the move towards permissiveness poses more of…
Morality Politics in Western Europe: Parties, Agendas and Policy Choices
Introduction I.Engeli , C.Green-Pedersen & L.T.Larsen Theoretical Perspectives on Morality Issues I.Engeli , C.Green-Pedersen & L.T.Larsen How to Study the Two Worlds of Morality Politics I.Engeli , C.Green-Pedersen & L.T.Larsen Morality Issues in the Netherlands: Coalition Politics under Pressure A.Timmermans & G.Breeman From Prohibition to Permissiveness: a Two Wave Change on Morality Issues in Spain L.Chaques Bonafont & A.M.Palau Roque Moralit…
Turning critique inside out: Foucault, Boltanski and Chiapello on the tactical displacement of critique and power
The relationship between critique and power is controversial in both society and sociology.Instead of setting a normative yardstick of critique, the article looks to conceptualize the intimate relationship between critique and power based on the observation that both are often displaced in processes of major social change, not least in the recent decades' reversal of hierarchy.The article conceptualizes the main idea about displacement of critiqu…
Fear
Framing knowledge and innocent victims. Europe bans smoking in public places
Most European countries have adopted partial or comprehensive smoking bans in public places within a short period of time, although the underlying evidence on the risk of second-hand smoke is almost 20 years old. After giving a short overview of European smoking bans, the article aims to analyze and discuss what can explain this wave of smoking bans, not only regarding the similarities of the bans themselves, but also of the arguments proposed in…
Når kritikken tager magten. Samfundskritik og magtforskydninger ifølge Foucault, Boltanski og Chiapello
Artiklen forsøger at begrebsliggøre det teoretiske forhold mellem magtrelationer og kritik, men uden at formulere en ekstern, normativ målestok for den rette samfundskritik. Argumentet er derimod, at eftersom magtrelationer selv rummer muligheden for at internalisere kritikken, må effektiv magtkritik være intern og stå i et intimt forhold til det, der er genstanden for kritik. Dette argument udvikles ved hjælp af en række begreber fra Foucaults m…
Speaking Truth to Biopower: On the Genealogy of Bioeconomy
Much of the biopolitical literature has been preoccupied with the relationship between biopolitics and economy, or bioeconomy as it is increasingly called. Although much has been said about the economical aspects of developments in biotechnology and biomedicine, the central concept of bioeconomy has been vasdy under-theorized, a situation that leads to serious confusion over the novelty of the phenomenon. This article argues that Foucault's lectu…
Det sunde fællesskab
Den aktuelle problematisering af den sociale ulighed i sundhed anvendes som anledning til at diskutere de senere årtiers danske folkesundhedspolitikker i forlængelse af det sociale spørgsmål. Diskussionerne udfoldes i rammen af en genealogi, der anskueliggør de måder, hvorpå det moderne samfund tidligere har bekymret sig om sin egen enhed. Påstanden er følgelig, at aktuelle forestillinger om et etisk funderet og sundt fællesskab, udgør seneste kn…
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The puzzle of permissiveness: Understanding Policy Processes Concerning Morality Issues
The growing interest in morality politics has spurred a large number of studies on individual morality issues and the gradual shift from restrictive to permissive regulation across Western Europe. Several studies have further pointed to the changing role of religion as the main cause of permissive policy shifts. However, seen in a comparative perspective across four countries and five morality issues, the move towards permissiveness poses more of…
Speaking Truth to Biopower: On the Genealogy of Bioeconomy
Much of the biopolitical literature has been preoccupied with the relationship between biopolitics and economy, or bioeconomy as it is increasingly called. Although much has been said about the economical aspects of developments in biotechnology and biomedicine, the central concept of bioeconomy has been vasdy under-theorized, a situation that leads to serious confusion over the novelty of the phenomenon. This article argues that Foucault's lectu…
Do Populists Listen to Expertise? A Five-Country Study of Authority, Arguments, and Expert Sources
Across diverse policy domains, there is broad concern about whether trust in science and expertise has eroded during the past decade. Using quota-based surveys with over 7,500 respondents across five countries and preregistered vignette experiments, we investigate what persuades populists and non-populists to accept expert advice. We find first that populism is associated with less willingness to accept expert advice, yet with variation between c…
Connective and Tactfully Tactical: Connective Tactics and Professional Authority in Doctor-Patient Relationships
Medical authority is often thought to be threatened by lay access to information, but how does professional authority work when citizens have more knowledge and choices? We seek to understand how professional authority works in doctor-patient relationships and what each side does to navigate medical encounters. Our abductive study is relational as it builds on qualitative interviews with both doctors and patients. While doctors and patients each …
Fear
Framing knowledge and innocent victims. Europe bans smoking in public places
Most European countries have adopted partial or comprehensive smoking bans in public places within a short period of time, although the underlying evidence on the risk of second-hand smoke is almost 20 years old. After giving a short overview of European smoking bans, the article aims to analyze and discuss what can explain this wave of smoking bans, not only regarding the similarities of the bans themselves, but also of the arguments proposed in…
Advice Not Safely Ignored: Professional Authority and the Strength of Legitimate Complexity
It is widely debated how ordinary citizens understand and use different types of knowledge and whether the authority of professional expertise is challenged by the spread of information. These debates underline that we know too little about how professional expertise is understood from the citizens' point of view and how citizens decide whether or not to accept various types of expertise as authoritative. This article investigates professional au…
Turning critique inside out: Foucault, Boltanski and Chiapello on the tactical displacement of critique and power
The relationship between critique and power is controversial in both society and sociology.Instead of setting a normative yardstick of critique, the article looks to conceptualize the intimate relationship between critique and power based on the observation that both are often displaced in processes of major social change, not least in the recent decades' reversal of hierarchy.The article conceptualizes the main idea about displacement of critiqu…
Not merely the absence of disease: A genealogy of the WHO’s positive health definition
The 1948 constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. It was a bold and revolutionary health idea to gain international consensus in a period characterized by fervent anti-communism. This article explores the genealogy of the health definition and demonstrates how it was possible to expand the scope of health, …
For Medicinal Purposes: Whose Advice Exerts Authority on Medical Marijuana
Citizens are embedded in legal systems in which the authority of different experts is normally given preference over citizens' opinions about medical marijuana and other medical issues. Yet, citizens may reject expert authority if they consider themselves to be competent based on their knowledge or social position. Thus, we are led to ask: In the context of direct democracy, what forms of expert authority-if any-does a historically privileged sub…
The problematization of fertility treatment: Biopolitics and IVF policy in Denmark
With the demographic challenges facing many European states, one would perhaps expect the state to invoke a biopolitical imperative to ‘faire vivre’, as Foucault termed it, and attempt to regulate birth rates. This expectation is too simple, however, as this article shows both theoretically and empirically. In order better to understand the possible counterweights to biopolitical concerns about the birth rate, the conceptual distinction between b…
Mapping reproduction
Det sunde fællesskab
Den aktuelle problematisering af den sociale ulighed i sundhed anvendes som anledning til at diskutere de senere årtiers danske folkesundhedspolitikker i forlængelse af det sociale spørgsmål. Diskussionerne udfoldes i rammen af en genealogi, der anskueliggør de måder, hvorpå det moderne samfund tidligere har bekymret sig om sin egen enhed. Påstanden er følgelig, at aktuelle forestillinger om et etisk funderet og sundt fællesskab, udgør seneste kn…
Anmeldelser
Det sunde fællesskab
Den aktuelle problematisering af den sociale ulighed i sundhed anvendes som anledning til at diskutere de senere årtiers danske folkesundhedspolitikker i forlængelse af det sociale spørgsmål. Diskussionerne udfoldes i rammen af en genealogi, der anskueliggør de måder, hvorpå det moderne samfund tidligere har bekymret sig om sin egen enhed. Påstanden er følgelig, at aktuelle forestillinger om et etisk funderet og sundt fællesskab, udgør seneste kn…
Speaking Truth to Biopower: On the Genealogy of Bioeconomy
Much of the biopolitical literature has been preoccupied with the relationship between biopolitics and economy, or bioeconomy as it is increasingly called. Although much has been said about the economical aspects of developments in biotechnology and biomedicine, the central concept of bioeconomy has been vasdy under-theorized, a situation that leads to serious confusion over the novelty of the phenomenon. This article argues that Foucault's lectu…
Når kritikken tager magten. Samfundskritik og magtforskydninger ifølge Foucault, Boltanski og Chiapello
Artiklen forsøger at begrebsliggøre det teoretiske forhold mellem magtrelationer og kritik, men uden at formulere en ekstern, normativ målestok for den rette samfundskritik. Argumentet er derimod, at eftersom magtrelationer selv rummer muligheden for at internalisere kritikken, må effektiv magtkritik være intern og stå i et intimt forhold til det, der er genstanden for kritik. Dette argument udvikles ved hjælp af en række begreber fra Foucaults m…
Framing knowledge and innocent victims. Europe bans smoking in public places
Most European countries have adopted partial or comprehensive smoking bans in public places within a short period of time, although the underlying evidence on the risk of second-hand smoke is almost 20 years old. After giving a short overview of European smoking bans, the article aims to analyze and discuss what can explain this wave of smoking bans, not only regarding the similarities of the bans themselves, but also of the arguments proposed in…
Turning critique inside out: Foucault, Boltanski and Chiapello on the tactical displacement of critique and power
The relationship between critique and power is controversial in both society and sociology.Instead of setting a normative yardstick of critique, the article looks to conceptualize the intimate relationship between critique and power based on the observation that both are often displaced in processes of major social change, not least in the recent decades' reversal of hierarchy.The article conceptualizes the main idea about displacement of critiqu…
Fear
Morality Politics in Western Europe: Parties, Agendas and Policy Choices
Introduction I.Engeli , C.Green-Pedersen & L.T.Larsen Theoretical Perspectives on Morality Issues I.Engeli , C.Green-Pedersen & L.T.Larsen How to Study the Two Worlds of Morality Politics I.Engeli , C.Green-Pedersen & L.T.Larsen Morality Issues in the Netherlands: Coalition Politics under Pressure A.Timmermans & G.Breeman From Prohibition to Permissiveness: a Two Wave Change on Morality Issues in Spain L.Chaques Bonafont & A.M.Palau Roque Moralit…
Redaktørernes forord
Guvernementalisering af velfærdsprofessionerne
Traditionelt opfattes professioners autonomi som en direkte følge af den viden, de besidder, samt af de særlige opgaver denne viden tillader dem at løse, ikke mindst for staten. Denne autonomi er imidlertid sat under pres igennem talrige bølger af reformer i velfærdsstaten, hvad enten der er tale om reformer med henblik på bedre opgavevaretagelse eller om simple nedskæringer. Mens det er velbeskrevet i professionslitteraturen, hvorledes velfærdsr…
The puzzle of permissiveness: Understanding Policy Processes Concerning Morality Issues
The growing interest in morality politics has spurred a large number of studies on individual morality issues and the gradual shift from restrictive to permissive regulation across Western Europe. Several studies have further pointed to the changing role of religion as the main cause of permissive policy shifts. However, seen in a comparative perspective across four countries and five morality issues, the move towards permissiveness poses more of…
The problematization of fertility treatment: Biopolitics and IVF policy in Denmark
With the demographic challenges facing many European states, one would perhaps expect the state to invoke a biopolitical imperative to ‘faire vivre’, as Foucault termed it, and attempt to regulate birth rates. This expectation is too simple, however, as this article shows both theoretically and empirically. In order better to understand the possible counterweights to biopolitical concerns about the birth rate, the conceptual distinction between b…
Mapping reproduction
Introduction to Special Issue: Professional-Citizen Relations
Introduction to Special Issue: Professional-Citizen Relations
No Third Parties. The Medical Profession Reclaims Authority in Doctor-Patient Relationships
A key aspect of the classic doctor-patient relationship is the idea that doctors exert a professional authority through medical expertise while also taking care of the patient. Some professional organizations have held that “no third parties” should come between doctor and patient, be it governments or corporations. The sanctity of medical authority has also met resistance, and doctors are often said to face more demanding patients today with the…
Not merely the absence of disease: A genealogy of the WHO’s positive health definition
The 1948 constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. It was a bold and revolutionary health idea to gain international consensus in a period characterized by fervent anti-communism. This article explores the genealogy of the health definition and demonstrates how it was possible to expand the scope of health, …
Advice Not Safely Ignored: Professional Authority and the Strength of Legitimate Complexity
It is widely debated how ordinary citizens understand and use different types of knowledge and whether the authority of professional expertise is challenged by the spread of information. These debates underline that we know too little about how professional expertise is understood from the citizens' point of view and how citizens decide whether or not to accept various types of expertise as authoritative. This article investigates professional au…
Connective and Tactfully Tactical: Connective Tactics and Professional Authority in Doctor-Patient Relationships
Medical authority is often thought to be threatened by lay access to information, but how does professional authority work when citizens have more knowledge and choices? We seek to understand how professional authority works in doctor-patient relationships and what each side does to navigate medical encounters. Our abductive study is relational as it builds on qualitative interviews with both doctors and patients. While doctors and patients each …
For Medicinal Purposes: Whose Advice Exerts Authority on Medical Marijuana
Citizens are embedded in legal systems in which the authority of different experts is normally given preference over citizens' opinions about medical marijuana and other medical issues. Yet, citizens may reject expert authority if they consider themselves to be competent based on their knowledge or social position. Thus, we are led to ask: In the context of direct democracy, what forms of expert authority-if any-does a historically privileged sub…
Do Populists Listen to Expertise? A Five-Country Study of Authority, Arguments, and Expert Sources
Across diverse policy domains, there is broad concern about whether trust in science and expertise has eroded during the past decade. Using quota-based surveys with over 7,500 respondents across five countries and preregistered vignette experiments, we investigate what persuades populists and non-populists to accept expert advice. We find first that populism is associated with less willingness to accept expert advice, yet with variation between c…
“Do what that expert says – until you know better”: How people gauge expert advice
It is often suggested that people have stopped listening to science and expert knowledge on issues like climate change or vaccines and replaced established expertise with a polarized landscape of social media bubbles. While surveys track trust in science, how lay people assess expertise is less clear. This article develops a theory of how lay people gauge expert advice through a combination of sociological concepts of authority and expertise as w…
Epistemological autonomy: How lay people do their own research to keep experts at arm’s length
With growing worries about skepticism and distrust in science, we see a tension between lay people being driven to accept science and expert advice while populist politicians such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reject established expertise and advise parents to “do their own research” on vaccinations. Recent literature investigates how individuals in particular political or cultural contexts navigate this tension either through “epistemological individ…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)