1st Edition
Challenges to Political Decision-making Dealing with Information Overload, Ignorance and Contested Knowledge
By Hubert Heinelt
Copyright 2019
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
144 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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. The book examines why, in some contexts, individuals consider something as evident and relevant for their action while others perceive them as nonsense or simply as ‘fake news’. As such, the book... Read more
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
Biography
Hubert Heinelt is Professor of Political Science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, and Advisory Professor at the Tongji University, Shanghai.
