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.…mehr
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.
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).
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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
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
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