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title = "Introduction: The Role of Scientific Expertise in EU Policy-Making: Ever Greater Contestation?",
abstract = "This introductory chapter presents the main purpose of the book and sets out the framework through which contestation of expertise is analysed. We explain the need for an institutional approach to understand the growing contestation of expertise, its implications for policy-making and the legal order, as well as potential ways forward. The chapter defends that we need to understand not only the processes and actors in the expertise arena, but rather we also need to focus on the factors and institutional setting that drive such contestation and map its implications. Contestation of expertise is a particular challenge for the European Union and its fragile reliance on multiple channels of legitimation. This introductory chapter lays out the dilemma for the EU and the existential threat of contestation: without recourse to expertise as a basis for policy-making, the EU would be ill-equipped to face the potentially centrifugal tendencies of polarised public opinion or incommensurable policy-preferences. The chapter sets out the ground for the substantive chapters and outlines their main content.",
author = "Vigjilenca Abazi and Johan Adriaensen and Thomas Christiansen",
note = "Funding Information: Throwing light on these wider questions is what motivated us at the start of the process leading to this publication. Our project was facilitated by a collaboration between the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Law Faculty at Maastricht University through the inter-faculty Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM). The above-mentioned workshop entitled {\textquoteleft}The Parliamentary Scrutiny of Brexit: Perspectives from Europe and the UK{\textquoteright} was organised with the help of CERiM and took place on 8–9 March 2018 at Maastricht University{\textquoteright}s Campus Brussels. We take this opportunity to sincerely thank all participants, and in particular the practitioners who generously accepted to take some of their time to contribute to our discussion, and our support staff—Elke Hundhausen, Shelly Tsui and the colleagues at UM Campus Brussels without whose eff ient help this event could not have taken place. We gratefully acknowl - edge the generous financial support of CERiM, of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Law Faculty, the Universiteitsfonds Limburg/SWOL and the Erasmus+ programme of the EU. The subsequent book publication owes much to the enthusiastic support of Jemima Warren, our editor at Palgrave Macmillan, and of Sophie Vanhoonacker, co-editor of the European Administrative Governance series. We also thank Carlotta Borges for her research assistance and help in preparing the manuscript for submission to the publisher, and Oliver Foster at Palgrave Macmillan for his support and advice during the production process.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-54367-9_1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030543662",
series = "European Administrative Governance",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.",
pages = "1--20",
editor = "Vigjilenca Abazi and Johan Adriaensen and Thomas Christiansen",
booktitle = "The Contestation of Expertise in the European Union",
address = "United Kingdom",
}