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Knowledge and Politics

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Riccardo Viale

    1. Rosselli Foundation, Torino, Italy

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Table of contents (7 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Truth, Science, and Politics: An Analysis of Social Epistemology

    • Riccardo Viale
    Pages 1-61

  3. A “Satisfying” Theory of Social Knowledge

    • Raymond Boudon
    Pages 63-87

  4. Knowledge and the Politics of Transition

    • Jon Elster
    Pages 89-105

  5. Bringing Power to Knowledge. Choosing Policies to Use Decentralized Knowledge

    • William A. Niskanen
    Pages 107-118

  6. Knowledge, Power and Self as Distinct Spheres

    • Alain Touraine
    Pages 119-136

  7. Two Conceptions of Democracy

    • Ronald Dworkin
    Pages 137-146

  8. The Crisis of Complexity

    • Michel Crozier
    Pages 147-152

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 153-154
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About this book

"Does knowledge matter to politics?" is the main question the book tries to answer. The analysis is interdisciplinary and covers a wide range of topics: a social epistemology assessment of the efficacy of political institutions in promoting the generation and the diffusion of science and technology; the proposal of the alternative concept of satisfying rationality to found the theory of social knowledge; the roles of social knowledge in the constitution making and the transitional justice; the arguments in favor of decentralized knowledge in social problem solving and its empowerment through devolution, de-bureaucratization and deregulation; the means to ensure the independency of knowledge from power and at the same time its social utility; the knowledge justified to inform the voters in political campaigns; the critique to technocracy as the wrong solution to deal with the crisis of complexity in contemporary society.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rosselli Foundation, Torino, Italy

    Riccardo Viale

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Knowledge and Politics

  • Editors: Riccardo Viale

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57564-8

  • Publisher: Physica Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-1422-4Published: 30 August 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-57564-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 154

  • Topics: Political Science, Sociology, general, Economics, general

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