TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hodges, Ron
A1  - Caperchione, Eugenio
A1  - van Helden, Jan
A1  - Reichard, Christoph
A1  - Sorrentino, Daniela
T1  - The role of scientific expertise in COVID-19 policy-making
T2  - Public organization review
N2  - Immense uncertainty and the need for drastic interventions cause politicians to rely heavily on scientific advice for underpinning or legitimating their COVID-19 decision-making. This paper explores the role of scientific advice in this policy field in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. It shows that scientific advice is based on the disciplinary, mainly medical, backgrounds of advisors but is also influenced by social and economic values, which are core to what politicians find important. During the pandemic a growing gap between scientific advice and political decisions is observed.
KW  - COVID-19 policy making
KW  - Scientific advice
KW  - Political logics
KW  - Scientific
KW  - logics
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63752
SN  - 1566-7170
SN  - 1573-7098
VL  - 22
IS  - 2
SP  - 249
EP  - 267
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -