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The Decisionist Imagination : Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century.

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guilhot, Nicolas
Otros Autores: Bessner, Daniel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • Chapter 9. Predictive Algorithms and Criminal SentencingConclusion. The Myth of the Decision; Index.