The Politics of Expertise in Congress

The Politics of Expertise in CongressExamines the relationship between technical experts and elected officials, challenging the prevailing view about how experts become politicized by the policy process. CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books Nowhere in the U. S. government is the marriage between expertise and politics more normatively troublesome and empirically obscure than in Congress. The legislature is asked to be both expert and representative, to act on the best available

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