The Decisionist Imagination : : Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century / / ed. by Daniel Bessner, Nicolas Guilhot.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Amadae, S. M.,; Andersson, Jenny,; Bessner, Daniel,; Christin, Angèle,; Claire Lazar, Nomi,; Guilhot, Nicolas,; Invernizzi-Accetti, Carlo,; Mirowski, Philip,; Palonen, Kari,; Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė,; Wertheim, Stephen,; Zuckerman, Ian,
• HerausgeberIn: Bessner, Daniel,; Guilhot, Nicolas,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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 i...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Who Decides?
• Chapter 1. Reading the International Mind: International Public Opinion in Early Twentieth Century Anglo-American Thought
• Chapter 2. Militant Democracy as Decisionist Liberalism: Reason and Power in the Work of Karl Loewenstein
• Chapter 3. Parliamentary and Electoral Decisions as Political Acts
• Chapter 4. Decision and Decisionism
• Chapter 5. How Having Reasons Became Making a Decision: The Cold War Rise of Decision Theory and the Invention of Rational Choice
• Chapter 6. Computable Rationality, NUTS, and the Nuclear Leviathan
• Chapter 7. The Unlikely Revolutionaries: Decision Sciences in the Soviet Government
• Chapter 8. Prediction and Social Choice: Daniel Bell and Future Research
• Chapter 9. Predictive Algorithms and Criminal Sentencing
• Conclusion. The Myth of the Decision
• Index