dc.contributor.author | Holst, Cathrine | |
dc.contributor.author | Molander, Anders | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-01-01T17:52:01Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-01-11T15:18:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-01-01T17:52:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-01-11T15:18:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-01-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Holst C, Molander A. Epistemic democracy and the role of experts. Contemporary Political Theory. 2019 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1470-8914 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1470-8914 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1476-9336 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/6500 | |
dc.description.abstract | Epistemic democrats are rightly concerned with the quality of outcomes and judge democratic
procedures in terms of their ability to ‘track the truth’. However, their impetus to assess ‘rule by experts’
and ‘rule by the people’ as mutually exclusive has led to a meagre treatment of the role of expert
knowledge in democracy. Expertise is often presented as a threat to democracy but is also crucial for
enlightened political processes. Contemporary political philosophy has so far paid little attention to our
reliance on experts and has not sufficiently addressed the question of how expertise can be used to
improve the epistemic quality of democratic decision making. We believe this lack of interest is spurred
by a too hasty acceptance of arguments dismissive of the political role of experts. The paper examines a
series of often-cited epistemic objections and concludes that several of them are overstated or
misconceived, yet they all reflect real difficulties that need to be addressed. On this background, we
tentatively outline a set of mechanisms that can contribute to alleviating the irreducible problem of
epistemic asymmetries and ensuring that experts really are experts and use their expertise in the right
way. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Norges forskningsråd 254767 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Contemporary Political Theory;December 2019, Volume 18, Issue 4 | |
dc.rights | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Contemporary Political Theory. The definitive publisher-authenticated version
Holst, C. & Molander, A. Contemp Polit Theory (2019) 18: 541. https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-00299-4 is available online at:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fs41296-018-00299-4 | en |
dc.subject | Expertises | en |
dc.subject | Epistocracies | en |
dc.subject | Democracies | en |
dc.subject | Epistemic asymmetries | en |
dc.subject | Biases | en |
dc.title | Epistemic democracy and the role of experts | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.updated | 2019-01-01T17:52:01Z | |
dc.description.version | acceptedVersion | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-00299-4 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1604697 | |
dc.source.journal | Contemporary Political Theory | |
dc.relation.projectID | Norges forskningsråd: 254767 | |