Decisionist Imagination

Daniel Bessner is Associate Professor of International Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Who Decides?Daniel Bessner and Nicolas GuilhotChapter 1. Reading the International Mind: International Public Opinion in Early Twentieth Century Anglo-American ThoughtStephen WertheimChapter 2. Militant Democracy as Decisionist Liberalism: Reason and Power in the Work of Karl LoewensteinCarlo Invernizzi-Accetti and Ian ZuckermanChapter 3. Parliamentary and Electoral Decisions as Political ActsKari PalonenChapter 4. Decision and DecisionismNomi Claire LazarChapter 5. How Having Reasons Became Making a Decision: The Cold War Rise of Decision Theory and the Invention of Rational ChoicePhilip MirowskiChapter 6. Computable Rationality, NUTS, and the Nuclear LeviathanS.M. AmadaeChapter 7. The Unlikely Revolutionaries: Decision Sciences in the Soviet GovernmentEglė RindzevičiūtėChapter 8. Prediction and Social Choice: Daniel Bell and Future ResearchJenny AnderssonChapter 9. Predictive Algorithms and Criminal SentencingAngèle ChristinConclusion: The Myth of the DecisionIndex

“The Decisionist Imagination is more an effort to rethink specific aspects of an existing literature and will find a keen readership amongst those who know it.” • Journal of Contemporary History “The Decisionist Imagination expertly outlines the development of a key component of social scientific thought, placing it into historical context across the whole of the twentieth century, providing a systematic analysis and evaluation of a core concept present in virtually all academic fields.” • Inderjeet Parmar, City University of London