The role of scientific expertise in COVID-19 policy-making
- 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.
| Author details: | Ron HodgesORCiD, Eugenio CaperchioneORCiD, Jan van HeldenORCiD, Christoph ReichardORCiDGND, Daniela SorrentinoORCiD |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-022-00614-z |
| ISSN: | 1566-7170 |
| ISSN: | 1573-7098 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Public organization review |
| Subtitle (English): | evidence from four european countries |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Place of publishing: | New York |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2022/04/11 |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Release date: | 2024/05/27 |
| Tag: | COVID-19 policy making; Political logics; Scientific; Scientific advice; logics |
| Volume: | 22 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Number of pages: | 19 |
| First page: | 249 |
| Last Page: | 267 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Soziologie |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
