Moore, Alfred James orcid.org/0000-0002-7252-5039 (2020) Three Models of Democratic Expertise. Perspectives on Politics. ISSN 1537-5927
Abstract
How can expertise best be integrated within democratic systems? And how can such systems best enable lay judgment of expert claims? These questions are obscured by the common framing of democratic politics against an imagined system of pure and unmixed expert rule or ‘epistocracy’. Drawing on emerging research that attempts to think critically and institutionally about expertise, this reflections essay distinguishes three ways of democratically organising relations between experts and non-experts: representative expertise, in which experts are taken to exercise limited and delegated power under the supervision of political representatives; participatory expertise, in which expertise is integrated with publics by means of directly participatory processes; and associative expertise, in which civil society groups, advocacy organisations, and social movements organise expert knowledge around the objectives of a self-organised association. Comparing these models according to the cognitive demands they make on lay citizens, the epistemic value of citizen contributions, and the ways in which they enable public scrutiny and contestation, the essay goes on to explore how they can support and undermine one another, and how they can open up new questions about democracy, trust and expertise in political science and political theory.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2020 15:10 |
Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2025 00:28 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:163694 |
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