After official policy advice to governments is publicly released, governments are often accused of ignoring or rejecting their experts. Commonly represented as politicisation, this depiction is superficial. Digging deeper, is there something about the official advice itself that makes it easy to ignore?
Instead of lamenting a demise of expertise, Christiane Gerblinger asks: does the expert advice of policy officials feature characteristics that invite its government audience to overlook or misread it? To answer this question, Gerblinger critically examines official policy advice and finds the language of the rebuffed: government experts reluctant to disclose what they know so as to accommodate political circumstances. She argues that this language evades stable meaning and diminishes the democratic right of citizens to scrutinise the work of government.
By:
Christiane Gerblinger Imprint: Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 153mm,
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 426g ISBN:9781760465414 ISBN 10: 1760465410 Pages: 310 Publication Date:08 December 2022 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active