Qualitative case study reveals how advisory systems construct epistemic authority in climate change governance, suggesting policy influence relies on interactive institutional bridges.
Key Points
Examine how Policy Advisory Systems generate, stabilize, and distribute epistemic authority to make expert evidence actionable within contemporary policymaking.
Developed a theoretical framework linking epistemic authorization to institutional, relational, discursive, and procedural mechanisms.
Conducted a qualitative case study analyzing expert credentialization processes within climate change policymaking.
Demonstrated that Policy Advisory Systems function not merely as information conduits but as active structures that generate and stabilize epistemic authority.
Showed that knowledge utilization depends on interacting relational, discursive, and procedural bridges that anchor expertise into concrete policy settings.