TY - JOUR
T1 - The Role of Scientific Expertise in COVID-19 Policy-making:
T2 - Evidence from Four European Countries
AU - Hodges, Ron
AU - Caperchione, Eugenio
AU - Van Helden, Jan
AU - Reichard, Christoph
AU - Sorrentino, Daniela
PY - 2022/4/11
Y1 - 2022/4/11
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.
AB - 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 - Political logics
KW - Scientific advise
KW - Scientific logics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127976411&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11115-022-00614-z
DO - 10.1007/s11115-022-00614-z
M3 - Article
SN - 1566-7170
VL - 22
SP - 249
EP - 267
JO - Public Organization Review
JF - Public Organization Review
IS - 2
ER -