Are experts complicit in making their advice easy for politicians to ignore?

Gerblinger, Christiane (2021) Are experts complicit in making their advice easy for politicians to ignore? Impact of Social Sciences Blog (27 Apr 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

The role of experts in policymaking and debates over the extent to which politicians are being ‘led by the science’ have become prominent in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, Christiane Gerblinger argues that, rather than being a simple case of politicians disregarding sound advice, experts should attend to the way in which this advice is communicated and the elements inherent to particular forms of advice that make it easy for politicians to ignore or divert to different ends.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	01 Jun 2021 13:57
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 11:06
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/110617

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