Enough of Experts
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Enough of Experts

Expert Authority in Crisis

  1. 239 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Enough of Experts

Expert Authority in Crisis

About this book

Enough of Experts: Expert Authority in Crisis analyses the challenges and threats to expert authority in neoliberal political economies and societies. It focuses upon the deep-seated political, economic, social and cultural transformations which have fundamentally destabilized and eroded the institutional foundations of expert authority over more than four decades. The book critically assesses the orthodox or 'received' model of expert authority as it has come under escalating pressures from a nexus of ideological, organizational, technological and cultural changes that have radically weakened the former's core 'institutional logic' and practical efficacy. It also looks forward to a range of 'expert futures' in which expert groups and organizations decline in power and status as their prevalence proliferates to a stage where they become ubiquitous in neoliberal regimes. Finally, the book presents an alternative reflexive model of expert authority and governance that is grounded in the 'dynamics of contestation and trust' and stands in direct contrast to the orthodox, rational model.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9783111620756
eBook ISBN
9783110734973

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. ChapterĀ 1: Theorizing Expert Authority
  6. ChapterĀ 2: Delegitimation
  7. ChapterĀ 3: Demystification
  8. ChapterĀ 4: Decomposition
  9. ChapterĀ 5: Covid-19 – A Case Study on Expert Authority
  10. ChapterĀ 6: Reflexive Expert Authority and Governance
  11. ChapterĀ 7: Expert Futures
  12. ChapterĀ 8: Towards a News Social Contract
  13. Index