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epistemic community  

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  • An epistemic community is a network of professionals with recognized expertise and authoritative claims to policy-relevant knowledge in a particular issue area. These professionals may have different disciplinary and professional backgrounds and may be located in different countries, but they share a set of norms that motivate their common action, a set of causal beliefs about central problems in their area of expertise, shared criteria for evaluating knowledge, and a common policy enterprise. [Source: Encyclopedia of Governance; Epistemic Community]

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