Gutenberg Open Science: Information and deliberation in the Covid-19 crisis and in the climate crisis : how expertocratic practices undermine self-government and compliance

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dc.contributor.author	Frinken, Julian	-
dc.contributor.author	Landwehr, Claudia	-
dc.date.accessioned	2023-01-20T16:37:03Z	-
dc.date.available	2023-01-20T16:37:03Z	-
dc.date.issued	2022	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/8425	-
dc.description.abstract	At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, democracy’s promise to enable well-informed, responsible decisions gained almost unprecedented appeal. At this stage, many European governments mainly deferred to expert judgment. This is what some experts and activist groups occasionally call for in the case of an even more severe global crisis: the climate crisis. But where citizens are asked to more or less blindly follow the lead of expert judgments, politics takes what Lafont (Democracy without shortcuts: a participatory conception of deliberative democracy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848189.001.0001, 2020) calls an ‘expertocratic shortcut’. In the first part of this paper, we delineate the perceptions of threat that characterize these two cases and that can lead to expertocratic temptations. We point out that shortcuts to democratic decisions not only constitute dead ends, but can also be used to reinforce existing power structures. In the second part, we show how and why such shortcuts are sociologically likely to cause alienation and reactance, as accountability is lost and the rationale for decisions cannot be retraced. We conclude that if a democratic system is to live up to its promise of rationality, legitimate expert involvement has to meet three requirements: political mandate and control, transparency of uncertainty and expert disagreement, linkage to inclusive and effective citizen deliberation.	en_GB
dc.description.sponsorship	Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 491381577	de
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	320 Politik	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	320 Political science	en_GB
dc.title	Information and deliberation in the Covid-19 crisis and in the climate crisis : how expertocratic practices undermine self-government and compliance	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8409	-
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport	de
jgu.organisation.number	7910	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	Acta politica	de
jgu.journal.volume	Version of Record (VoR)	de
jgu.publisher.year	2022	-
jgu.publisher.name	Palgrave Macmillan	de
jgu.publisher.place	Basingstoke	-
jgu.publisher.issn	1741-1416	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	320	de
jgu.publisher.doi	10.1057/s41269-022-00267-2	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485	-
jgu.subject.dfg	Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
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