Expertise Revisited: Reflecting on the Intersection of Science and Democracy in the Case of Fracking
Description:
This dissertation aims to explain the conditions under which expertise can undermine democratic decision making. I argue that the root of the conflict between expertise and democracy lies in what I call insufficiently “representative” expertise – that is forms of scientific research that are not relevant to the policy questions at hand and that fail to make visible their hidden values dimensions. I claim that the scholarly literature on the problem of expertise fails to recognize and address th…
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Date:
December 2015
Creator:
Ahmadi, Mahdi
Partner:
UNT Libraries