Expertise, Politics, and Policy in Latin America

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

One of the hallmarks of policymaking nowadays is the amount of technically complex knowledge it requires. Increasingly, actors who vie to shape, adopt, and implement public decisions need high levels of expertise to do so. Formerly, policy expertise lied squarely within the state, where government investment in institutions, hiring, training, and projects forged specialists. Now, both the acquisition and application of knowledge is much more fluid, with multiple and competing loci where critical skills and know-how may be acquired. This in turn, has increased and diversified the number and type of actors who bring their expertise to bear on politics. In this panel we examine the changes and continuities found in current reconfigurations of power by surveying the evolving role of expertise in energy, health, communication, gender, and environmental, and science & technology policies. The papers of this panel cover several countries, such as Argentina, Brazil, and the Latin American region as a whole.

Sub Track

• Political Institutions and Processes

Session Organizer

• Isabella Alcañiz, University of Maryland

Chair

• Ricardo A Gutiérrez, Universidad Nacional de San Martín

Individual Presentations

• The Origin of Expertise in the Nuclear and Environmental Sector in Argentina - Ricardo A Gutiérrez, Universidad Nacional de San Martín

• Las feministas como expertas en formulación de políticas públicas: el caso de las políticas de comunicación en la Argentina - María Carolina Justo von Lurzer, Universidad de Buenos Aires

• A aplicação dos instrumentos desenvolvimentistas em rede na atual Estratégia Nacional de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação do Brasil - Rafael Ramos da Luz, Universidade de Brasília

• ¿Qué quiere decir conocimiento experto en políticas sexuales? - Mario M Pecheny, Universidad de Buenos Aires

• Uso del derecho y activismo jurídico en las movilizaciones sociales territoriales - Gabriela Delamata, CONICET

Discussant

• Matthew Amengual, Massachusetts Institute of Technology