Knowing Governance [electronic resource] : The Epistemic Construction of Political Order /
Voss, Jan-Peter,editor.
Voß, Jan-Peter.editor.
Freeman, Richard.editor.
Knowing Governance sets out to understand governance through the design and making of its models and instruments. What kinds of knowledge do they require and reproduce? How are new understandings of governance produced in practice, by scientists and policy makers and by the publics with whom they engage?
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Cover; Knowing Governance; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface and Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1: Introduction: Knowing Governance; Knowing governance; A new technocracy?; Infragovernance and infrapolitics; Approaches to knowledge and governance; Governmentality: orders of discourse as power/knowledge; Interpretive political science and policy studies: the social construction of political reality; STS: technoscience as ontological politics; Analysing the making of knowledge about governance; Knowing the body politic: collective agency
Knowing instruments: modes of governingMaterial knowing: documents and bodies; Boundaries of knowing: science and politics; A knowledge turn in governance research; Spaces of infragovernance; Knowing and reification; Reflexive knowing: doing knowledge politics; References; Part I: Knowing the Body Politic: Collective Agency; 2: Modeling the State: An Actor-Network Approach; Introduction; Modeling and forming; Remodeling and reforming; Reformed models and models of reform; Model 1: the power of the actor-state (in state theory); Model 2: power networks of stateness (in state theory)
Model 3: the regulatory and disaggregated state (in state reform)Model 4: the plural and fragmented state (in state reform); Model 5: the hollow and enabling state (in state theory and state reform); The state and state power in models and reform; Reflexivity; Forming an actor-network state model from discourse on state reform; Notes; References; 3: Co-producing European Integration: Research, Policy, and Welfare Activation; Introduction; EU research policy and funding: steering knowledge production for European purposes?; Expertise as mode of political influence
European integration research as co-producer of an integrated social EuropeMaking discourses: the European activation agenda; Making institutions: hybrid arenas for knowledge politics; Making representations: social policy, the production and dissemination of stable and movable knowledge objects?; Making identities: collectivities and communities of knowing and doing EU social policy; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4: Experimenting with Global Governance: Learning Lessons in the Contact Group on Piracy; Introduction; Laboratory and experimenting
A field experiment: the Lessons Learned ProjectAlchemists and virtuosos: knowledge for governance and experiments; Notes; References; Part II: Knowing Instruments: Modes of Governing; 5: Cultivating 'Nudge': Behavioural Governance in the UK; Experiments on social order; The rise of behavioural governance as empirical puzzle; From MINDSPACE to EAST; Political and epistemic authority in the making; State-science-society: re-imagining public relationships; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6: Realizing Instruments: Performativity in Emissions Trading and Citizen Panels; Introduction
Epistemic performativity
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Knowing Governance sets out to understand governance through the design and making of its models and instruments. What kinds of knowledge do they require and reproduce? How are new understandings of governance produced in practice, by scientists and policy makers and by the publics with whom they engage?
Social policy.
Political sociology.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Sociology.
World politics.
Social Policy.
Political Sociology.
Social Theory.
Sociology, general.
Social Policy.
Political History.