The politics and science of prevision : governing and probing the future /
This book inquires into the use of prediction at the intersection of politics and academia, and reflects upon the implications of future-oriented policymaking across different fields. The volume focuses on the key intricacies and fallacies of prevision in a time of complexity, uncertainty and unpred...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2020]
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| Series: | CSS studies in security and international relations.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Introduction
- Governing and probing the future : the politics and science of prevision / Andreas Wenger, Ursula Jasper, Myriam Dunn Cavelty
- Part 2. Academic perspectives on future-oriented policy-making
- Imagined worlds : the politics of future-making in the 21st century / Sheila Jasanoff
- How to know the future
- and the past (and how not) : a pragmatist perspective on foresight and hindsight / Gunther Hellmann
- Future thinking and cognitive distortions : key questions that guide forecasting processes / Michael C. Horowitz
- Thinking historically : a guide for policy / Francis J. Gavin
- From predicting to forecasting : uncertainties, scenarios, and their (un-)intended side effects / Myriam Dunn Cavelty
- Part 3. Empirical perspectives across policy fields
- Uncertainty and precariousness at the policy-science interface : three cases of climate-driven adaptation / Maria Carmen Lemos, Nicole Klenk
- The anticipative medicalization of life : governing future risk and uncertainty in (global) health / Anticipative Medicalization of Life: Governing Future Risk and Uncertainty in (Global) Health / Ursula Jasper
- Crisis, what crisis? Uncertainty, risk, and financial markets / Peter J. Katzenstein, Stephen C. Nelson
- Imagining future biothreats : the role of popular culture / Filippa Lentzos, Jean-Baptiste Gouyon, Brian Balmer
- Forecasting civil war and political violence / Corinne Bara
- Predicting nuclear weapons proliferation / Jonas Schneider"We do that once per day : cyclical futures and institutional ponderousness in predictive policing / Matthias Leese Part 4. Conclusion
- The politics and science of the future : assembling future knowledge and integrating it into public policy / Politics and Science of the Futurre: Assembling Future Knowledge and Integrating It into Public Policy andGovernanceWenger, Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Ursula Jaspe