The Decisionist Imagination

Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century

Daniel Bessner, Nicolas Guilhot (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2018
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-915-8 (ISBN)

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Explores the relationship between the key concept of "decisionism," as it emerged from 1920s political theory, and the postwar development of formal decision theory when sovereign decision-making became an object of scientific inquiry in a new cultural, institutional, and international landscape.

In the decades following World War II, the science of decision-making moved from the periphery to the center of transatlantic thought. The Decisionist Imagination explores how “decisionism” emerged from its origins in prewar political theory to become an object of intense social scientific inquiry in the new intellectual and institutional landscapes of the postwar era. By bringing together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, this volume illuminates how theories of decision shaped numerous techno-scientific aspects of modern governance—helping to explain, in short, how we arrived at where we are today.

Daniel Bessner is Associate Professor of International Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Who Decides?

Daniel Bessner and Nicolas Guilhot

Chapter 1. Reading the International Mind: International Public Opinion in Early Twentieth Century Anglo-American Thought

Stephen Wertheim

Chapter 2. Militant Democracy as Decisionist Liberalism: Reason and Power in the Work of Karl Loewenstein

Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti and Ian Zuckerman

Chapter 3. Parliamentary and Electoral Decisions as Political Acts

Kari Palonen

Chapter 4. Decision and Decisionism

Nomi Claire Lazar

Chapter 5. How Having Reasons Became Making a Decision: The Cold War Rise of Decision Theory and the Invention of Rational Choice

Philip Mirowski

Chapter 6. Computable Rationality, NUTS, and the Nuclear Leviathan

S.M. Amadae

Chapter 7. The Unlikely Revolutionaries: Decision Sciences in the Soviet Government

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė

Chapter 8. Prediction and Social Choice: Daniel Bell and Future Research

Jenny Andersson

Chapter 9. Predictive Algorithms and Criminal Sentencing

Angèle Christin

Conclusion: The Myth of the Decision

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.11.2018
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-78533-915-X / 178533915X
ISBN-13	978-1-78533-915-8 / 9781785339158
Zustand	Neuware