TY - BOOK ID - 85297055 TI - The role of 'experts' in international and European decision-making processes : advisors, decision makers or irrelevant actors? PY - 2014 SN - 1316083322 1316057321 1316054950 131608096X 110742738X 1316071502 1139871366 1316078604 1316076237 1316073866 9781316073865 1107074789 1322177120 9781316057322 9781316078600 9781139871365 9781107427389 9781107074781 9781107427389 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Decision making. KW - Consultants. KW - Specialists. KW - Authorities (Persons) KW - Experts KW - Persons KW - Intellectuals KW - Advisors KW - Specialists KW - Deciding KW - Decision (Psychology) KW - Decision analysis KW - Decision processes KW - Making decisions KW - Management KW - Management decisions KW - Choice (Psychology) KW - Problem solving KW - Decision making KW - Consultants KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85297055 AB - 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. ER -