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.
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.
Dr. Eva Krick is Researcher at the University of Oslos ARENA Centre for European Studies, focusing on questions of collective decision-making, democratic legitimacy and the role of knowledge in policy-making.
Kricks book provides the reader with a rare combination of an intelligent probe into the fundamental problem of the theory of democracy how to reconcile democratic participation and reliable expertise and meticulous empirical case studies of three exemplary exercises in public participation. The result is an unusually sophisticated analysis which does not shy away from practical conclusions. Peter Weingart, University of Bielefl“ë
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