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Political Representation and Lay Expertise

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dc.contributor.authorBodini, Paolo
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-17T09:03:08Z
dc.date.available2024-09-17T09:03:08Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis paper aims to criticize the elitist/aristocratic theory of political representation, according to which representation is designed to balance people’s participation with the rule of an expert elite. However, an internal and an external criticism of this theory can be respectively developed that revolve around the notion of “lay expertise”. Indeed, the article clarifies that this elitist theory goes hand in hand with a top-down understanding of expertise itself. This connection erroneously reinforces the opposition which is unjustifiably drawn between inclusion and expertise, closing the door to the culturally embedded inputs that lay-experts can provide (internal criticism). Moreover, the analysis shows that the elitist theory erroneously ignores a set of political dynamics defining political representation, thus reducing representation to an exclusionary device (external criticism). Lay expertise shows that representation has a wider political potential which, crucially, enables the possibility to mediate between different kinds of knowledge and interests.it
dc.identifier.citationPaolo Bodini, "Political Representation and Lay Expertise" in: "Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics (2024) XXVI/2", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2024, pp. 401-420
dc.identifier.doi10.13137/1825-5167/36374
dc.identifier.doieutx
dc.identifier.issn1825-5167
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.openstarts.units.it/handle/10077/36374
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofEtica & Politica / Ethics & Politics
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectElitism
dc.subjectPolitical Representation
dc.subjectRepresentative Democracy
dc.subjectDemocracy and Expertise
dc.subjectSocial Epistemology
dc.titlePolitical Representation and Lay Expertiseit
dc.typeArticle
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oaire.citation.endPage420
oaire.citation.issue2
oaire.citation.startPage401
oaire.citation.volumeXXVI
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