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Matthew Wood

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Reconciling credibility and accountability: how expert bodies achieve credibility through accountability processes

2018

Arguments about the legitimate role of expert bodies in Europe often centre on the following question: Does their independence help to make policies credible or should they be made democratically accountable to principals and stakeholders? This article claims this is a false dichotomy. It does so by arguing theoretically that credibility can be achieved through accountability processes. Then, drawing on exemplary case studies, this article identifies distinctive accountability processes for ensuring credibility: revisable competencies, deliberation over institutional design, and engagement in public justification. Credibility and accountability are thus not conflicting, but co-constitutive …

Sociology and Political ScienceDelegationbusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesPublic relationsDeliberation050601 international relationsIndependence0506 political scienceEuropean policyPolitical sciencePolitical Science and International RelationsInstitutional designCredibilityAccountability050602 political science & public administrationbusinessLegitimacymedia_commonEuropean Politics and Society
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Design and performance of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope camera

2022

Journal of astronomical telescopes, instruments, and systems 8(01), 014007-1 (2022). doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.014007

imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopesinstrumentationPhysics - Instrumentation and Detectorsvery-high-energy gamma-ray astronomyPhysics::Instrumentation and DetectorsMechanical EngineeringSettore FIS/01 - Fisica SperimentaleAstrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for AstrophysicsFOS: Physical sciencesAstronomy and AstrophysicsInstrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)530Electronic Optical and Magnetic MaterialsCherenkov telescope arraySpace and Planetary ScienceControl and Systems Engineeringddc:530prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescopeAstrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for AstrophysicsInstrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)silicon photomultipliers
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