About the group
Politicians may embrace the analyses and advice of experts, but they may also ignore expert recommendations or control experts in ways that make them tools of government rather than actors with independent political power.
- To what extent do providers of expert advice actually influence the definition of policy problems and the solutions adopted?
- Have experts become increasingly influential over time, or is their advice increasingly contested and rejected?
Goals
The research group posed the following research questions:
- How has the policy-making influence of experts through advisory commissions in the Nordic countries changed over the period 2000-2020 and during the coronavirus crisis?
- Have the Nordic countries followed similar trajectories towards a new Nordic model of expertise in governance or rather taken separate paths, and how can we explain the observed variation?
- What are the consequences of the changing patterns of expert influence for democracy and good governance in the Nordic countries?
Cooperation
- Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo
- Department of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo
- Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo
- The Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University
- Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
- Department of Political Science, Dalarna University
- Department of Political Science, Helsinki University
Duration
January 2021 – December 2022
Financing
The research project was financed by UiO:Nordic, The University of Oslo.