The decisionist imagination : sovereignty, social science, and democracy in the 20th century /: sovereignty, social science, and democracy in the 20th century. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Daniel Bessner and Nicolas Guilhot.
• Editors: Bessner, Daniel, 1984-; Guilhot, Nicolas, 1970-
• Contents: Who decides? / Daniel Bessner and Nicolas Guilhot -- Reading the international mind : international public opinion in early twentieth century Anglo-American thought / Stephen Wertheim -- Militant democracy as decisionist liberalism : reason and power in the work of Karl Loewenstein / Carlo Invernizzi Accetti and Ian Zuckerman -- Parliamentary and electoral decisions as political acts / Kari Palonen -- Decision and decisionism / Nomi Claire Lazar -- How having reasons became making a decision : the Cold War rise of decision theory and the invention of rational choice / Philip Mirowski -- Computable rationality, nuts, and the nuclear Leviathan / S.M. Amadae -- The unlikely revolutionaries : decision sciences in the Soviet government / Egle Rindzeviciute -- Prediction and social choice : Daniel Bell and future research / Jenny Andersson -- Predictive algorithms and criminal sentencing / Angele Christin -- The myth of the decision / Daniel Bessner and Nicolas Guilhot.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 320.01/9; Political science -- Methodology; Political science -- Decision making; Political science -- Decision making; Political science -- Methodology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785339165; 1785339168
• Related ISBNs: 9781785339158
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 01, 2018).
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