Wright, J;
Mata, T;
(2020)
Epistemic consultants and the regulation of policy knowledge in the Obama administration.
Minerva
10.1007/s11024-020-09411-8.
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Abstract
The agencies of the government of the United States of America, such as the Food and Drug Administration or the Environmental Protection Agency, intervene in American society through the collection, processing, and difusion of information. The Presidency of Barack Obama was notable for updating and redesigning the US government’s information infrastructure. The White House enhanced mass consultation through open government and big data initiatives to evaluate policy efectiveness, and it launched new ways of communicating with the citizenry. In this essay we argue that these programs spelled out an emergent epistemology based on two assumptions: dispersed knowledge and a critique of judgment. These programs have redefned the evidence required to justify and design regulatory policy and conferred authority to a new kind of expert, which we call epistemic consultants.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Epistemic consultants and the regulation of policy knowledge in the Obama administration |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11024-020-09411-8 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-020-09411-8 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Expertise, Governance, Big data, Open government, Dispersed knowledge, Behavioral economics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10098416 |
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