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The Contestation of Expertise in the European Union

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Editors:
  1. Vigjilenca Abazi

    1. Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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  2. Johan Adriaensen

    1. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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  3. Thomas Christiansen

    1. Department of Political Science, Luiss University, Rome, Lazio, Italy

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  • Examines the position and role of expertise in European policy-making and governance
  • Maps the role of experts in a variety of EU institutions
  • Analyses the role of expertise in EU policy-making on trade and climate change

Part of the book series: European Administrative Governance (EAGOV)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Vigjilenca Abazi, Johan Adriaensen, Thomas Christiansen
    Pages 1-20

  3. Conceptualising the Role of Expertise in EU Policy-Making

    • Tannelie Blom
    Pages 21-45

  4. The Europeanization of National Knowledge Regimes

    • Johan Christensen, Cathrine Holst
    Pages 47-66

  5. Winning Hearts, Losing Minds: Politicisation and the Contestation of Expertise in the Context of TTIP Negotiations

    • Francesca Colli, Bart Kerremans
    Pages 67-90

  6. The European Commission’s Expert Groups: Adapting to the Contestation of Expertise

    • Elissaveta Radulova, Johanna Breuer, Aneta Spendzharova
    Pages 91-121

  7. The Role of Expertise in the EU’s Emerging Diplomatic System

    • Tannelie Blom, Sophie Vanhoonacker
    Pages 123-144Open Access

  8. Climate Science in the Courts

    • Marjan Peeters
    Pages 145-172

  9. Judicial Review of Science-Based Measures Under WTO Law

    • Lukasz Gruszczynski
    Pages 173-199

  10. Contesting Concentrated Scientific Power: The Case of the European Commission’s Chief Scientific Adviser

    • Shelly Tsui
    Pages 201-222

  11. Conclusion: The Contestation of Expertise in the EU

    • Vigjilenca Abazi, Johan Adriaensen, Thomas Christiansen
    Pages 223-236

  12. Correction to: The Role of Expertise in the EU’s Emerging Diplomatic System

    • Tannelie Blom, Sophie Vanhoonacker
    Pages C1-C1

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 237-239
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About this book

This book examines the position and role of expertise in European policy-making and governance. At a time when the very notion of expertise and expert advice is increasingly losing authority, the book addresses these challenges by empirically examining specific administrative processes and institutional designs in the European Union. The first part of the volume theorizes expertise and its contestation by examining accounts of the legitimate institutional design of knowledge production processes and exploring the theoretical links of Europeanisation and expertise. The second part of the book delves into empirical institutionalist accounts of expertise and maps the role of experts in a variety of EU institutions but also explains the implications when EU bodies themselves are in an ‘expert’ position, such as agencies. The book offers insights into how individual experts deal with the challenge of producing reports that will be heard by policy-makers, while at the same time preserving their independence. Broadening its scope, the book then expands the analysis to the role of advisory committees in light of the shift from a reliance primarily on in-house expertise to including more external experts in advisory groups in the European Commission and European Parliament as well as at the European External Action. In the third part, the book opens the lens to developments beyond the EU by taking into account two highly pertinent fields: climate change and trade. These fields are highly complex, fast-developing, and politicised issues, and the book engages with them in order to provide an outside-in perspective on expertise.

Chapter 6 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.






Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Vigjilenca Abazi

  • Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Johan Adriaensen

  • Department of Political Science, Luiss University, Rome, Lazio, Italy

    Thomas Christiansen

About the editors

Vigjilenca Abazi is Assistant Professor of EU Law at Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Johan Adriaensen is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Thomas Christiansen is Professor of Political Science and European Integration in the Political Science Department, Luiss Università Guido Carli, Italy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Contestation of Expertise in the European Union

  • Editors: Vigjilenca Abazi, Johan Adriaensen, Thomas Christiansen

  • Series Title: European Administrative Governance

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54367-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54366-2Published: 17 November 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54369-3Published: 17 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54367-9Published: 16 November 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2524-7263

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-7271

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 239

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Public Policy, Governance and Government

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