| Description |
1 online resource (320 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro; The Decisionist Imagination; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Who Decides?; Chapter 1. Reading the International Mind; Chapter 2. Militant Democracy as Decisionist Liberalism; Chapter 3. Parliamentary and Electoral Decisions as Political Acts; Chapter 4. Decision and Decisionism; Chapter 5. How Having Reasons Became Making a Decision; Chapter 6. Computable Rationality, NUTS, and the Nuclear Leviathan; Chapter 7. The Unlikely Revolutionaries; Chapter 8. Prediction and Social Choice |
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Chapter 9. Predictive Algorithms and Criminal SentencingConclusion. The Myth of the Decision; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Political science -- Methodology
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Political science -- Decision making.
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HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.
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Political science -- Decision making
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Political science -- Methodology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bessner, Daniel
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| ISBN |
9781785339165 |
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1785339168 |
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