The Role of Scientific Expertise in COVID-19 Policy-making: Evidence from Four European Countries

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...

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Autores principales: Hodges, Ron, Caperchione, Eugenio, van Helden, Jan, Reichard, Christoph, Sorrentino, Daniela
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8995888/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11115-022-00614-z
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author Hodges, Ron
Caperchione, Eugenio
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Reichard, Christoph
Sorrentino, Daniela
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-89958882022-04-11 The Role of Scientific Expertise in COVID-19 Policy-making: Evidence from Four European Countries Hodges, Ron Caperchione, Eugenio van Helden, Jan Reichard, Christoph Sorrentino, Daniela Public Organiz Rev Article 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. Springer US 2022-04-11 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8995888/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11115-022-00614-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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