Politics of expertise in the European Parliament: discursive constructions and contestations of expertise by party-political actors

This article analyses the politics of expertise in the European Parliament (EP). We aim to understand how MEPs and political group staff discursively construct expertise, its role in parliamentary work, and how expertise is politicized in the EP. The qualitative analysis is based on an extensive int...

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Autores: Elomäki, Anna, Haapala, Taru Kastehelmi Sofia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/712996
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2283699
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Palabra clave:European Parliament
expertise
MEPs
interest groups
political groups
Derecho
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spelling Politics of expertise in the European Parliament: discursive constructions and contestations of expertise by party-political actorsElomäki, AnnaHaapala, Taru Kastehelmi SofiaEuropean ParliamentexpertiseMEPsinterest groupspolitical groupsDerechoThis article analyses the politics of expertise in the European Parliament (EP). We aim to understand how MEPs and political group staff discursively construct expertise, its role in parliamentary work, and how expertise is politicized in the EP. The qualitative analysis is based on an extensive interview dataset (n=133) from the 8th and 9th legislative terms. It builds on a constructivist approach that sees expertise as constructed, legitimized, and institutionalized in discourses and practices and shaped by struggles and power relations. The article shows that expertise in the EP is a political rather than a technical question. Understandings of expertise and its role are constituted and contested, and political ideologies shape understandings of expertise. Although the role of technical policy expertise in the EP is broadly accepted, it is approached through a political lens, and political groups value and use expertise in different ways in internal policymakingThis work was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program grant number 771676, the Academy of Finland grant number 347916, the Tomás y Valiente fellowship programme at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (MIAS) and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).Informa UK LimitedDepartamento de Ciencia Política y Relaciones InternacionalesFacultad de Derecho20232023-11-24research articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10486/712996https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2283699reponame:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAMinstname:Universidad Autónoma de MadridInglésengEuropean Commission http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 771676open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/7129962026-06-23T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Politics of expertise in the European Parliament: discursive constructions and contestations of expertise by party-political actors
title Politics of expertise in the European Parliament: discursive constructions and contestations of expertise by party-political actors
spellingShingle Politics of expertise in the European Parliament: discursive constructions and contestations of expertise by party-political actors
Elomäki, Anna
European Parliament
expertise
MEPs
interest groups
political groups
Derecho
title_short Politics of expertise in the European Parliament: discursive constructions and contestations of expertise by party-political actors
title_full Politics of expertise in the European Parliament: discursive constructions and contestations of expertise by party-political actors
title_fullStr Politics of expertise in the European Parliament: discursive constructions and contestations of expertise by party-political actors
title_full_unstemmed Politics of expertise in the European Parliament: discursive constructions and contestations of expertise by party-political actors
title_sort Politics of expertise in the European Parliament: discursive constructions and contestations of expertise by party-political actors
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Elomäki, Anna
Haapala, Taru Kastehelmi Sofia
author Elomäki, Anna
author_facet Elomäki, Anna
Haapala, Taru Kastehelmi Sofia
author_role author
author2 Haapala, Taru Kastehelmi Sofia
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales
Facultad de Derecho
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv European Parliament
expertise
MEPs
interest groups
political groups
Derecho
topic European Parliament
expertise
MEPs
interest groups
political groups
Derecho
description This article analyses the politics of expertise in the European Parliament (EP). We aim to understand how MEPs and political group staff discursively construct expertise, its role in parliamentary work, and how expertise is politicized in the EP. The qualitative analysis is based on an extensive interview dataset (n=133) from the 8th and 9th legislative terms. It builds on a constructivist approach that sees expertise as constructed, legitimized, and institutionalized in discourses and practices and shaped by struggles and power relations. The article shows that expertise in the EP is a political rather than a technical question. Understandings of expertise and its role are constituted and contested, and political ideologies shape understandings of expertise. Although the role of technical policy expertise in the EP is broadly accepted, it is approached through a political lens, and political groups value and use expertise in different ways in internal policymaking
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