Experts and Democratic Legitimacy

Eva Krick is researcher at ARENA – Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. Her research focuses on European consensus democracies and the relationship of expert knowledge and democratic legitimacy in modern governance.Cathrine Holst is professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, and researcher at ARENA – Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. Her work focuses inter alia on political and social theory, the role of experts in policy-making and on gender policy in Europe.

• 1. The socio-political ties of expert bodies. How to reconcile the independence requirement of reliable expertise and the responsiveness requirement of democratic governance 2. Reconciling credibility and accountability: How expert bodies achieve credibility through accountability processes 3. Creating participatory expert bodies. How the targeted selection of policy advisers can bridge the epistemic-democratic divide 4. The role of advisory bodies in the emergence of cross-cutting policy issues: comparing innovation policy in Norway and Germany 5. No epistocracy without representation? The case of the European Central Bank 6. Expertisation or greater representation? Evidence from Norwegian advisory commissions 7. How does expert knowledge travel between EU institutions? The case of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership 8. Epistemic democracy and the quality of government