The Politics of Expertise
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2013
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315884974
Abstract
This book collects case studies and theoretical papers on expertise, focusing on four major themes: legitimation, the aggregation of knowledge, the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of power. It focuses on the institutional means by which the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of power are connected, and how the problems of aggregating knowledge and legitimating it are solved by these structures. The radical novelty of this approach is that it places the traditional discussion of expertise in democracy into a much larger framework of knowledge and power relations, and in addition begins to raise the questions of epistemology that a serious account of these problems requires.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
The Politics of Expertise, Routledge, 350 p.
Scholar Commons Citation
Turner, Stephen, "The Politics of Expertise" (2013). Philosophy Faculty Publications. 111.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/phi_facpub/111
