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From financial shocks and health pandemics to climate change and national security threats, crises expose the faultlines in how policy expertise is sought, filtered and acted upon.
This edited collection offers a rigorous, comparative analysis of governmental policy advisory systems under pressure. Drawing on case studies spanning COVID-19 responses in Australia and Belgium and slow-burning, “creeping” crises such as climate change, the authors examine the available knowledge, advisory bodies and experts from trusted insiders to external commentators.
Together, these invaluable chapters advance our understanding of how evidence-informed advice shapes – and is shaped by – the politics of crisis governance.
Peter Aagaard is Associate Professor of Politics and Public Administration in the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University.
Marleen Easton is Professor of Governance of Security in the Department of Public Governance and Management at Ghent University and Adjunct Professor in the Griffith Criminology Institute at Griffith University.
Brian W. Head is Professor of Public Policy in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland.
Introduction: Policy Expertise in Times of Crisis – Peter Aagaard, Marleen Easton and Brian W. Head
1. Analysing Expert Advice on Political Decisions in Times of Crisis – Peter Aagaard, Sevasti Chatzopoulou and Birgitte Poulsen
2. Mapping the Changing Role of Expertise in COVID-19 Politics in Europe – Kennet Lynggaard, Theofanis Exadaktylos, Mads Dagnis Jensen and Michael Kluth
3. Expert Perspectives on the Changing Dynamics of Policy Advisory Systems: The COVID-19 Crisis and Policy Learning in Belgium and Australia – Marleen Easton, Jennifer Yarnold, Valerie Vervaenen, Jasper De Paepe and Brian W. Head
4. Investigating the Scientific Knowledge–Policy Interface in EU Climate Policy – Claire Dupont, Jeffrey Rosamond and Bishoy L. Zaki
5. The Promise and Performance of Data Ecosystems: Australia’s COVID-19 Response – Cosmo Howard and Bernadette Hyland-Wood
6. The Challenges Experts Face During Creeping Crises: The Curse of Complacency – Ahmad Wesal Zaman, Olivier Rubin and Reidar Staupe-Delgado