Article ID: CBB525909268

Epistemic Consultants and the Regulation of Policy Knowledge in the Obama Administration (2020)

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The agencies of the government of the United States of America, such as the Food and Drug Administration or the Environmental Protection Agency, intervene in American society through the collection, processing, and diffusion of information. The Presidency of Barack Obama was notable for updating and redesigning the US government’s information infrastructure. The White House enhanced mass consultation through open government and big data initiatives to evaluate policy effectiveness, and it launched new ways of communicating with the citizenry. In this essay we argue that these programs spelled out an emergent epistemology based on two assumptions: dispersed knowledge and a critique of judgment. These programs have redefined the evidence required to justify and design regulatory policy and conferred authority to a new kind of expert, which we call epistemic consultants.

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Authors & Contributors
Nicholas A. Famoso
Waide, Robert
Black, Megan
Baker, Zeke
Elizabeth Varner
Fitsanakis, Joseph
Concepts
Science and government
Government agencies
Public policy
Presidents
Technology and government
Research
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Spain
Belgium
California (U.S.)
Institutions
SCK CEN Belgian Nuclear Research Centre
Department of the Interior, United States
United States Air Force (USAF)
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