Knowledge Policy And Expertise

Download or read book Knowledge, Policy, and Expertise written by Susan E. Owens and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about relations between knowledge and policy, focusing on the role of expert advice. From a diverse and extensive literature, it distils four models of knowledge-policy interactions, and shows how advisors are variously represented as rational analysts, political symbols, agents of learning, or skilful users of 'boundary work'. It takes as its empirical subject one of Britain's longest-standing advisory bodies - the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution - created in 1970 and abolished in 2011.