| The Politics of Expertise Contributor(s): Turner, Stephen P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415709431 ISBN-13: 9780415709439 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Philosophy | Epistemology |
| Dewey: 320.6 |
| LCCN: 2013022114 |
| Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.30 lbs) 338 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book collects case studies and theoretical papers on expertise, focusing on four major themes: legitimation, the aggregation of knowledge, the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of power. It focuses on the institutional means by which the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of power are connected, and how the problems of aggregating knowledge and legitimating it are solved by these structures. The radical novelty of this approach is that it places the traditional discussion of expertise in democracy into a much larger framework of knowledge and power relations, and in addition begins to raise the questions of epistemology that a serious account of these problems requires. |