Citizen Knowledge : Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy.
Citizen Knowledge discusses how various forms of knowledge are dealt with in societies that combine a democratic political system with a capitalist economic system. How do citizens learn about politics? How are scientific insights taken up in politics? What role can markets play for processing decen...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
2023.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Citizen Knowledge discusses how various forms of knowledge are dealt with in societies that combine a democratic political system with a capitalist economic system. How do citizens learn about politics? How are scientific insights taken up in politics? What role can markets play for processing decentralized knowledge? Lisa Herzog argues that the fraught relation between democracy and capitalism gets out of balance if too much knowledge is treated according to the logic of markets. Complex societies need different mechanisms for dealing with knowledge, among which democratic deliberation and ex. |
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| Item Description: | 11.1. Introduction |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (353 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0197681735 9780197681732 |