Jacob Hale Russell, Dennis Patterson

The Weaponization of Expertise (eBook, ePUB)

How Elites Fuel Populism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The problem with expertise-and the dark side of the equation "knowledge = power." Experts are not infallible. Treating them as such has done us all a grave disservice and, as The Weaponization of Expertise makes painfully clear, given rise to the very populism that all-knowing experts and their elite coterie decry. Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson use the devastating example of the COVID-19 pandemic to illustrate their case, revealing how the hubris of all-too-human experts undermined-perhaps irreparably-public faith in elite policymaking. Paradoxically, by turning science into dogmatism, the overweening elite response has also proved deeply corrosive to expertise itself-in effect, doing exactly what elite policymakers accuse their critics of doing. A much-needed corrective to a dangerous blind faith in expertise, The Weaponization of Expertise identifies a cluster of pathologies that have enveloped many institutions meant to help referee expert knowledge, in particular a disavowal of the doubt, uncertainty, and counterarguments that are crucial to the accumulation of knowledge. At a time when trust in expertise and faith in institutions are most needed and most lacking, this work issues a stark reminder that a crisis of misinformation may well begin at the top.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262382106
• Artikelnr.: 70900076

Autorenporträt

Jacob Hale Russell is Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School. Dennis Patterson is Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers Law School and Professor of Legal Philosophy at Surrey Law School, UK. He is the author, with Michael Pardo, of Minds, Brains, and Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Epigraphs
Table of Contents
Preface: “Just Follow the Science”
Chapter 1. Expertise Corrupted
PART I. AN OVERPLAYED HAND: The Age of Mindless Expertise
Chapter 2. Elites and Expert Culture
Chapter 3. The Misuse of Expertise
Chapter 4. Explaining the Abuse of Expertise
PART II. CALLING THEIR BLUFF: Populists Against Experts
Chapter 5. Misunderstanding Populism
Chapter 6. Populist Habits of Mind
Chapter 7. Expertise in Policy
PART III. DOUBLING DOWN: Weaponizing the Charge of Misinformation
Chapter 8. Much Ado about Misinformation
Chapter 9. Merchants of Overconfidence
Chapter 10. The Closing of the Elite Mind
Conclusion. Giving Political Judgment a Chance
Acknowledgments
Works Cited