The 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 Tables

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Who Decides?

Daniel Bessner and Nicolas Guilhot



Chapter 1. Reading the International Mind: International Public Opinion in Early Twentieth Century Anglo-American Thought

Stephen Wertheim



Chapter 2. Militant Democracy as Decisionist Liberalism: Reason and Power in the Work of Karl Loewenstein

Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti and Ian Zuckerman



Chapter 3. Parliamentary and Electoral Decisions as Political Acts

Kari Palonen



Chapter 4. Decision and Decisionism

Nomi Claire Lazar



Chapter 5. How Having Reasons Became Making a Decision: The Cold War Rise of Decision Theory and the Invention of Rational Choice

Philip Mirowski



Chapter 6. Computable Rationality, NUTS, and the Nuclear Leviathan

S.M. Amadae



Chapter 7. The Unlikely Revolutionaries: Decision Sciences in the Soviet Government

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė



Chapter 8. Prediction and Social Choice: Daniel Bell and Future Research

Jenny Andersson



Chapter 9. Predictive Algorithms and Criminal Sentencing

Angèle Christin



Conclusion: The Myth of the Decision



Index