This book deals with the role of expertise and public participation in modern governance. It explores the relationship, tensions and compatibility of these increasingly important and partly conflicting sources of legitimacy and authority. By zooming in on the coordinated procedures of environmental policy-making in European consensus systems and by interconnecting theories of democracy, knowledge and science, organisation and decision-making, the author develops institutional solutions to the tensions between epistemic and democratic demands on public policy-making.

Builds on insights from democratic theory, theories of knowledge and science and organisational theory Gives equal consideration to epistemic and democratic demands Explains how to institutionally combine experts, civil servants, citizens and stakeholders to develop more efficient public policies

Autorentext

Dr. Eva Krick is Researcher at the University of Oslo's ARENA Centre for European Studies, focusing on questions of collective decision-making, democratic legitimacy and the role of knowledge in policy-making.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Part I: Best practices in policy advice and consultation.- Chapter 1: How to assess the epistemic authority and participatory quality of policy developing institutions.- Chapter 2: Ambitious cases of policy advice and consultation in Norwegian and German energy and climate policy.- Part II: Creating participatory expert bodies.- Chapter 3: The targeted selection of participants.- Chapter 4: Decision-making by tacit consent.- Chapter 5: Loose coupling through permanent feedback loops.- Conclusion.