How government experts self-sabotage the language of the rebuffed / Christiane Gerblinger.
| Author/creator | Gerblinger, Christiane |
| Other author | Australian National University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2022] |
| Description | xv, 293 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. Introduction -- 2. Strategies of Impersonality: Constructing a Framework for the Rebuffed -- 3. Knowing What not to Know: Advice on South Australia's Blackout and the Role of Renewable Energy -- 4. Excess of Objectivity: Australian Intelligence Assessments of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction -- 5. The Language of the Unrebuffed -- 6. Conclusion. |
| Review | After official policy advice to governments is publicly released, governments are often accused of ignoring or rejecting their experts. Commonly represented as politicisation, this depiction is superficial. Digging deeper, is there something about the official advice itself that makes it easy to ignore? Instead of lamenting a demise of expertise, Christiane Gerblinger asks: does the expert advice of policy officials feature characteristics that invite its government audience to overlook or misread it? To answer this question, Gerblinger critically examines official policy advice and finds the language of the rebuffed: government experts reluctant to disclose what they know so as to accommodate political circumstances. She argues that this language evades stable meaning and diminishes the democratic right of citizens to scrutinise the work of government. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021388685 |
| ISBN | 9781760465414 (softcover) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
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