Enough of Experts : : Expert Authority in Crisis / / Cara Reed, Michael Reed.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Reed, Cara,; Reed, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences , 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VII, 232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter 1: Theorizing Expert Authority --; Chapter 2: Delegitimation --; Chapter 3: Demystification --; Chapter 4: Decomposition --; Chapter 5: Covid-19 – A Case Study on Expert Authority --; Chapter 6: Reflexive Expert Authority and Governance --; Chapter 7: Expert Futures --; Chapter 8: Towards a News Social Contract --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110734911; 9783111175782; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319261; 9783111318806
• ISSN: 2747-5689
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110734911
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Cara Reed, Michael Reed.

Enough of Experts: Expert Authority in Crisis analyses the challenges and threats to expert authority in neoliberal political economies and societies. It focuses upon the deep-seated political, economic, social and cultural transformations which have fundamentally destabilized and eroded the institutional foundations of expert authority over more than four decades. The book critically assesses the orthodox or ‘received’ model of expert authority as it has come under escalating pressures from a nexus of ideological, organizational, technological and cultural changes that have radically weakened the former’s core ‘institutional logic’ and practical efficacy. It also looks forward to a range of ‘expert futures’ in which expert groups and organizations decline in power and status as their prevalence proliferates to a stage where they become ubiquitous in neoliberal regimes. Finally, the book presents an alternative reflexive model of expert authority and governance that is grounded in the ‘dynamics of contestation and trust’ and stands in direct contrast to the orthodox, rational model.