The Role of ‘Experts' in International and European Decision-Making Processes

Advisors, Decision Makers or Irrelevant Actors?

Monika Ambrus editor Karin Arts editor Ellen Hey editor Helena Raulus editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:28th Aug '14

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A broad-gauged analysis of the issues raised by experts' involvement in international and European decision-making processes.

This timely book on the role of 'experts' examines the issues raised by experts' involvement in international and European decision-making processes. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, they theorize the experts' involvement in general and address their role in specific policy areas.Experts are increasingly relied on in decision-making processes at international and European levels. Their involvement in those processes, however, is contested. This timely book on the role of 'experts' provides a broad-gauged analysis of the issues raised by their involvement in decision-making processes. The chapters explore three main recurring themes: the rationales for involving experts and ensuing legitimacy problems; the individual and collective dimensions of expert involvement in decision making; and experts and politics and the politics of expertise. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, they theorize the experts' involvement in general and address their role in the policy areas of environment, trade, human rights, migration, financial regulation, and agencification in the European Union.

ISBN: 9781107074781

Dimensions: 234mm x 158mm x 27mm

Weight: 720g

426 pages