The Role of ‘Experts' in International and European Decision-Making Processes: Advisors, Decision Makers or Irrelevant Actors? - Hardcover

Edited By Monika Ambrus , Karin Arts , Ellen Hey , Helena Raulus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107074789 ISBN 13: 9781107074781

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Experts are increasingly relied on in decision-making processes at international and European levels. Their involvement in those processes, however, is contested. This timely book on the role of 'experts' provides a broad-gauged analysis of the issues raised by their involvement in decision-making processes. The chapters explore three main recurring themes: the rationales for involving experts and ensuing legitimacy problems; the individual and collective dimensions of expert involvement in decision making; and experts and politics and the politics of expertise. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, they theorize the experts' involvement in general and address their role in the policy areas of environment, trade, human rights, migration, financial regulation, and agencification in the European Union.

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About the Authors

Monika Ambrus is a Lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Karin Arts is Professor of International Law and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Ellen Hey is Professor of Public International Law at the Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Helena Raulus is Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107074789
• ISBN 13: 9781107074781
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 434