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Experts and the Will of the People - Society, Populism and Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Experts and the Will of the People - Society, Populism and Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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The rise of populism in the West has led to attacks on the
legitimacy of scientific expertise in political decision making.
This book explores the differences between populism and pluralist
democracy and their relationship with science. Pluralist democracy
is characterised by respect for minority choices and a system of
checks and balances that prevents power being concentrated in one
group, while populism treats minorities as traitorous so as to
concentrate power in the government. The book argues that
scientific expertise - and science more generally -- should be
understood as one of the checks and balances in pluralist
democracies. It defends science as 'craftwork with integrity' and
shows how its crucial role in democratic societies can be rethought
and that it must be publicly explained. This book will be of value
to scholars and practitioners working across STS as well as to
anyone interested in decoding the populist agenda against science.
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