Expertisation and Democracy in Europe
Expertisation and Democracy in Europe provides a much-needed account of the role and reorganisation of expertise and expert knowledge in Europe and the European Union in a broad range of policy spheres, contributing to the debate triggered by the recent crises. It brings novel perspectives to debates on technocracy and our understanding of the relations between knowledge, experts and democracy.
The book explores and assesses new and old linkages between knowledge, expertise and democracy, and expands and deepens the current debates by addressing questions such as: What is the role of expertise in Europe? How is knowledge of different kinds embedded in and decisive for democratic practice in contemporary democracies? How are we to assess recent transformations of the expertcitizen and governmentcivil society relationships from the perspective of democracy, and which paths are viable in the years to come? Finally, the book engages with and gives flesh to the notion of expertisation not only as a broad political and societal diagnosis, but also as a multidimensional and deeply contested process that enfolds in concrete practices and institutional settings.
This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of European studies, European and European Union politics, democracy, public policy, international relations, sociology, gender studies and media studies.
Magdalena Gra is an Associate Professor at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakw, Poland.
Cathrine Holst is a Research Professor at ARENA Centre for European Studies and Professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway.
Marta Warat is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University in Krakw, Poland.
Routledge Studies on Democratising Europe
Edited by Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum ARENA
University of Oslo
Routledge Studies on Democratising Europe focuses on the prospects for a citizens Europe by analysing the kind of order that is emerging in Europe. The books in the series take stock of the EU as an entity that has progressed beyond intergovernmentalism and consider how to account for this process and what makes it democratic. The emphasis is on citizenship, constitution-making, public sphere, enlargement, common foreign and security policy, and Europe society.
For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-on-Democratising-Europe/book-series/DE
7 Rethinking Democracy and the European Union
Edited by Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum
8 The Politicization of Europe
Contesting the Constitution in the Mass Media
Paul Statham and Hans-Jrg Trenz
9 Democratic Decision-making in the EU
Technocracy in Disguise?
Anne Elizabeth Stie
10 States of Democracy
Gender and Politics in the European Union
Edited by Yvonne Galligan
11 The European Unions Non-Members
Independence Under Hegemony?
Edited by Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum
12 Expertisation and Democracy in Europe
Edited by Magdalena Gra, Cathrine Holst and Marta Warat
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Anna Bednarczyk is a PhD Candidate and Researcher involved in projects conducted at the Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University. She graduated from the MA program in Sustainable Urban Governance and Peace at University for Peace in Costa Rica and Sociology at Jagiellonian University in Poland. Her main academic interests are participatory democracy, urban planning and urban policies. Her latest research was on the participatory urban planning in Medellin, Columbia.
Magdalena Gra is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her main academic interests are the external relations of the European Union especially European Neighbourhood Policy, the changes in foreign policy and international relations in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of European integration, as well as collective identification changes in the European Union and functioning of democracy in Europe. She co-edited the following volumes: Collective Identity and Democracy in the Enlarging Europe (edited together with Zdzisaw Mach and Katarzyna Zieliska, 2012) and Democracy, State and Society. European integration in Central and Eastern Europe (edited with Katarzyna Zieliska, 2011). Her recent publications include Contesting EU enlargement. Views from the European Parliament after 2004 in Hans-Ake Persson, Bo Petersson, Cecilie Stokholm Banke (eds) Playing Second Fiddle? Contending Visions of Europes Future Development (2015) and Defenders of faith? Victims of secularisation? Polish politicians and religion in the European Parliament (co-authored with Katarzyna Zieliska) in Religion, State, Society (2014).
se Gornitzka is a Professor at ARENA Centre for European Studies and the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. Her main academic interests are the transformation and sustainability of the European political order in the area of education and research policy, the dynamics of European level governance sites, the role of expertise in EU policy making and the domestic impact of the EUs soft modes of governance. Recent publications include Reputation Management in Complex Environments A Comparative Study of University Organizations (co-authored with Tom Christensen) in Higher Education Policy (2016), Societal Inclusion in Expert Venues: Participation of Interest Groups and Business in the European Commission Expert Groups (co-authored with Ulf Sverdrup) in Politics and Governance
