https://www.trymnf.com/tags/legitimacy/ Recent content in Legitimacy on ✻ Trym Nohr Fjørtoft Hugo en-US Copyright © 2026, Trym Nohr Fjørtoft. Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.trymnf.com/blog/what-drives-public-acceptance-of-expert-agencies/ Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.trymnf.com/blog/what-drives-public-acceptance-of-expert-agencies/ <p><em>This post is written with Asimina Michailidou and was first published at <a href="https://theloop.ecpr.eu/news-media-and-the-construction-of-eu-technocratic-legitimacy/">The Loop</a>.</em> It builds on the findings in our <a href="https://www.trymnf.com/publications/fjortoft-michailidou-prx/">PRX article</a>.</p> <hr> <p>As the Covid-19 pandemic has shown, public acceptance of expert agencies is not a given. Nor is scientific expertise a sufficient precondition for an agency’s public legitimacy. To preserve the credibility of democratic governance that relies increasingly on inputs from independent expert bodies, we must understand the conditions under which an expert agency gains the public’s approval.</p>