LEADER 03211nam 2200457 450 001 9910795539003321 005 20181207125148.0 010 $a1-78533-916-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781785339165 035 $a(CKB)5120000000101558 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5541094 035 $a(DE-B1597)636209 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781785339165 035 $a(EXLCZ)995120000000101558 100 $a20181113d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe decisionist imagination $esovereignty, social science, and democracy in the 20th century /$fedited by Daniel Bessner, Nicolas Guilhot 210 1$aNew York ;$aLondon :$cBerghahn,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (320 pages) 311 $a1-78533-915-X 327 $aWho 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. 330 $a"In the decades following World War II, the science of decision-making moved from the periphery to the center of transatlantic political theory, as part of the broader mobilization of social science during the Cold War. The Decisionist Imagination explores how "decisionism" emerged from its origins in prewar political science to become an object of intense scientific inquiry in the new intellectual and institutional landscape of the postwar era. By bringing together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, this volume illuminates the connection between early twentieth-century conservative political theory and techno-scientific aspects of modern governance--helping to explain, in short, how we arrived at where we are today"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aPolitical science$xMethodology 606 $aPolitical science$xDecision making 610 $aDecision Theory, Decisionism, Decisionist, Cold War, Political Theory, Sovereignty, Decision-Making. 615 0$aPolitical science$xMethodology. 615 0$aPolitical science$xDecision making. 676 $a320.072 702 $aBessner$b Daniel$f1984- 702 $aGuilhot$b Nicolas$f1970- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795539003321 996 $aThe decisionist imagination$93730785 997 $aUNINA