Explaining Political Judgement
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Author | : Perri 6 |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2011-09-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139503197 |
What is political judgement? Why do politicians exhibit such contrasting thought styles in making decisions, even when they agree ideologically? What happens when governments with contrasting thought styles have to deal with each other? In this book Perri 6 presents a fresh, rigorous explanatory theory of judgement, its varieties and its consequences, drawing upon Durkheim and Douglas. He argues that policy makers will understand - and misunderstand - their problems and choices in ways that reproduce their own social organisation. This theory is developed by using the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 as an extended case study, examining the decision-making of the Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev regimes. Explaining Political Judgement is the first comprehensive study to show what a neo-Durkheimian institutional approach can offer to political science and to the social sciences generally.
Author | : Perri 6 |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 |
ISBN | : 9781139155939 |
A fresh theory of political judgment, using analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis to provide new implications for political science.
Author | : Peter J. Steinberger |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1993-09-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780226771939 |
Steinberger's conclusion--that a coherent political society must also be a judgmental one--flies in the face of much contemporary thinking.
Author | : Philip E. Tetlock |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-08-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1400888816 |
Since its original publication, Expert Political Judgment by New York Times bestselling author Philip Tetlock has established itself as a contemporary classic in the literature on evaluating expert opinion. Tetlock first discusses arguments about whether the world is too complex for people to find the tools to understand political phenomena, let alone predict the future. He evaluates predictions from experts in different fields, comparing them to predictions by well-informed laity or those based on simple extrapolation from current trends. He goes on to analyze which styles of thinking are more successful in forecasting. Classifying thinking styles using Isaiah Berlin's prototypes of the fox and the hedgehog, Tetlock contends that the fox--the thinker who knows many little things, draws from an eclectic array of traditions, and is better able to improvise in response to changing events--is more successful in predicting the future than the hedgehog, who knows one big thing, toils devotedly within one tradition, and imposes formulaic solutions on ill-defined problems. He notes a perversely inverse relationship between the best scientific indicators of good judgement and the qualities that the media most prizes in pundits--the single-minded determination required to prevail in ideological combat. Clearly written and impeccably researched, the book fills a huge void in the literature on evaluating expert opinion. It will appeal across many academic disciplines as well as to corporations seeking to develop standards for judging expert decision-making. Now with a new preface in which Tetlock discusses the latest research in the field, the book explores what constitutes good judgment in predicting future events and looks at why experts are often wrong in their forecasts.
Author | : Milton Lodge |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780472105410 |
How are impressions about political candidates organized in memory? What is the nature of political group stereotypes? How do citizens make voting decisions? How do citizens formulate opinions about key issues and politics? The contributors to Political Judgment: Structure and Process reach answers to these questions that will substantially influence how the next generation of scholars working at the intersection of political science and sociology, and public opinion researchers more generally, go about their work.
Author | : Ronald Beiner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135026823 |
Originally published in 1983. One of the basic capacities of man as a political being is his faculty of judgement. Yet for all the books on concepts like freedom, equality and authority, surprisingly little attention has been given to this topic in the tradition of Western political thought. What is the nature of political judgement? What endows us, as human beings, with the ability to make reasonable judgements about human affairs and to judge the common world we share with others? By what means to we secure validity for our judgements? What are the underlying conditions of this human capacity, and what implications does it have the understanding of politics? These questions, central as they are to any reflection on politics have rarely been addressed in a systematic way. This book examines Kant’s concept of taste and Aristotle’s concept of prudence, as well as recent works of political philosophy by Arendt, Gadamer and Habermas, all crucially influenced by Kant and Aristotle.
Author | : Richard Bourke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2009-08-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 052176498X |
Leading scholars re-examine political judgement, attempting to understand the relationship between political theory and political practice.
Author | : Peter J. Steinberger |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2018-06-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1509513140 |
Politics is the process by which communities collectively decide to pursue certain courses of action. It is, as such, always a matter of judgment. Courses of action are chosen at least in part because they are somehow adjudged better than the alternatives, and this has given rise to a great deal of speculation about the ways in which we determine the relative merits of proposed laws and policies. What exactly is good judgment in politics? What are the characteristics of people who judge especially well? How is good judgment acquired and how can we recognize it in others? Peter Steinberger addresses such questions by considering a variety of important developments in the history of political thought – ancient, modern and contemporary – introducing readers to important and on-going debates about the idea of prudence or practical wisdom as it functions, or should function, in the realm of public affairs. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of political theory, the history of political thought, and political ethics.
Author | : John Zaller |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1992-08-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521407861 |
This 1992 book explains how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences.
Author | : Ronald Beiner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780608210025 |