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 proc...
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| Format: | eBook |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press
2023.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009767128306719 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Citizen Knowledge
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Democracy's Trouble with Knowledge
- 1.2. The Argument in a Nutshell
- 1.3. Political Epistemology
- 1.4. A Note on Methodology
- 1.5. Chapter Preview
- 2. Knowledge: Social, Practical, Political
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Epistemology's Shift toward the Social
- 2.3. Knowing and Acting
- 2.4. Epistemic Injustice
- 2.5. Conclusion: The Epistemic Is Political
- 3. Markets, Deliberators, Experts
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Markets
- 3.3. Deliberation
- 3.4. Knowledge Generation in Communities of Experts
- 3.5. Epistemically Well-Ordered Societies
- 3.6. Conclusion: The Epistemic Complexity of Modern Societies
- 4. The Rise of Free Market Thinking
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. The Epistemic Underpinnings of Free Market Thinking
- 4.3. From Academic Discourse to Popular Narrative
- 4.4. Institutional Consequences of Market Thinking
- 4.5. Conclusion: The Fragility of Marketized Democracies
- 5. What's Wrong with the "Marketplace of Ideas"?
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Historical Sources
- 5.3. Why the Metaphor Fails
- 5.4. Markets, Battles, or Sport Games?
- 5.5. Different Fields, Different Rules
- 5.6. Conclusion
- 6. Democratic Institutionalism
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. From Principles to Institutions
- 6.3. Institutions and Individual Rights
- 6.4. Self-Stabilizing Democracy
- 6.5. Truth as Precondition of Democracy
- 6.6. Conclusion
- 7. Putting the Market in Its Place
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. The Need for Reforms toward Epistemic Functionality
- 7.2.1. Are Markets a Good Idea at All?
- 7.2.2. Which Preferences Do Markets Satisfy?
- 7.2.3. Which Epistemic Infrastructures Do Markets Need?
- 7.2.4. Do Market Prices Reflect Costs to Society?
- 7.2.5. What Do Financial Markets Reflect?.
- 7.2.6. How Is Knowledge Traded in Markets?
- 7.3. The Epistemic Primacy of Politics
- 7.4. Conclusion
- 8. Experts in Democracies
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Expert Communities in Democratic Societies
- 8.3. Accountability or Trustworthiness?
- 8.4. The Partnership Model between Expert Communities and Democratic Societies
- 8.4.1. Providing Expertise
- 8.4.2. Managing Interfaces
- 8.4.3. Working toward Epistemic Justice
- 8.5. Conclusion
- 9. The Epistemic Infrastructure of Democracy
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Lottocracy to the Rescue?
- 9.3. Epistemic Infrastructures for Democratic Citizenship
- 9.3.1. Schools for Democracy
- 9.3.2. Media for Democracy
- 9.3.3. Civil Society Organizations and Unions
- 9.4. Epistemic Upgrades for the Internet
- 9.5. Conclusion
- 10. The Epistemic Benefits of Social Justice
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. The Social Circumstances of Epistemic Trust
- 10.3. Empirical Insights on Social Trust
- 10.4. The Epistemic Impact of Workplace Organization
- 10.5. Conclusion
- 11. Defending Democracy: Socially, Institutionally, Pragmatically
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Does Democracy Expect Too Much from Citizens?
- 11.3. Minimizing Capture
- 11.4. Learning to Rule Democratically
- 11.5. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
