Challenges to Political Decision-Making: Dealing with Information Overload, Ignorance and Contested Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9780367729110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 134 str.

Hubert Heinelt

Opis

This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors in taking collectively binding political decisions.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Political Decisions and Knowledge  3. Governance and Knowledge  4. Conceptual Reflections on Knowledge Orders  5. Using Communicative Mechanisms for the Formation of Knowledge Orders through Discursive Practices  6. Knowledge Politics  7. How to Govern Democratically in the (non-)knowledge Society? Problems and Perspectives

O autorze

Hubert Heinelt is Professor of Political Science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, and Advisory Professor at the Tongji University, Shanghai.