The Decisionist Imagination

Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-915-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 621 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bessner, Daniel

Guilhot, Nicolas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Entscheidungsfindung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Entscheidungstheorie, Sozialwahltheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

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

Egle Rindzeviciute

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

Über Autor(innen)

Bessner, Daniel
Daniel Bessner is the Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual (Cornell University Press, 2018).

Guilhot, Nicolas
Nicolas Guilhot is a research professor at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris and a visiting scholar at New York University. His publications include After the Enlightenment: Political Realism and International Relations in the Mid-20th Century (Cambridge University Press, 2017), The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order (Columbia University Press, 2005), The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory (Columbia University Press, 2011).

Daniel Bessner is the Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual (Cornell University Press, 2018).