Die AG Politische Soziologie (Prof. Dr. Holger Straßheim) lädt im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe „Politik und Wissenschaft in der Weltgesellschaft“ zum Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Cathrine Holst ein:
Expertise studies teach us that expert knowledge is becoming increasingly diversified and even democratized. Recent scholarship on the use of expert knowledge in policy-making in the Nordic countries indicate however a growing role of scientific knowledge in policy-making. How strong, and how distinctive, is this scientization trend? What does it mean? Should scientization of policy-advice worry us – and if so, why?