Textbooks

• Collins, H. & Evans, R. — Rethinking Expertise (2007). Taxonomy of expertise types and their social roles.
• Jasanoff, S. — The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers (1990). How scientific expertise gets institutionalized in governance.
• Tetlock, P. — Expert Political Judgment (2005). Empirical study of when expert forecasts succeed and fail.
• Turner, S. P. — Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts (2003). Tension between expertise and democratic legitimacy.

Tutorials & Courses

• ABET Accreditation — How engineering programs get accredited.
• ISO/IEC 17011 — International standard for accreditation bodies.

Key Concepts

• Credentialing — certifying individuals as competent in a domain.
• Accreditation — certifying that institutions meet quality standards.
• Epistemic authority — legitimate claim to be believed on a subject.
• Calibration — whether confidence levels match actual accuracy.
• Peer review — expert evaluation of expert work.