Enough of experts: Expert authority in crisis

Reed, Cara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1085-1661 and Reed, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8267-572X 2023. Enough of experts: Expert authority in crisis. De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences, DeGruyter. 10.1515/9783110734911

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	DeGruyter
ISBN:	9783110734911
Last Modified:	12 May 2023 09:49
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/159429

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