Des expertises scientifiques crédibles en appui à la décision et au débat publics. Retour d’expérience sur les ESCo de l’Inra

Sabbagh, Claire; Bars, Yves Le; Stengel, Pierre

doi:10.1051/nss/2014054

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“…Policymakers within the Ministry of Agriculture are familiar with INRA systematic literature reviews. They have commissioned several of them since 2002 (Sabbagh et al 2014). Besides, we focus on a short period: from the commissioning of one particular review to its publication.…”

Section: Methodology: a Single Case Study Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining the legitimizing function of expert knowledge: how France got away with pain in farm animals

Caby¹

2021

Fr Polit

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Scholars have long investigated connections between types of knowledge use and types of policy subsystem. Yet, most of them focus on the learning function of expert information. The legitimizing function of knowledge—when expertise serves as a substitute for decision (Boswell in J Eur Public Policy 15(4):471–488, 2008)—has attracted less attention. An empirically validated explanation of this function is still missing. This article tests existing hypotheses regarding which features of the subsystem are conducive to the legitimizing function. The demonstration rests upon a case study: France’s Ministry of Agriculture’s commissioning of INRA to carry out a systematic literature review on pain in farm animals. Two types of factors are involved in the legitimizing function of knowledge: environmental mechanisms (an adversarial policy subsystem, concentration of policy authority) and relational mechanisms (coalitions displaying epistemic uncertainty and exerting pressures on the source of policy authority, a policy broker mitigating the conflict between the two coalitions).

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Section: Methodology: a Single Case Study Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%