Citizen knowledge : markets, experts, and the infrastructure of democracy / Lisa Herzog.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herzog, Lisa, 1983- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge economy.

Economics.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

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 expert communities are central. 'Citizen Knowledge' develops the vision of an egalitarian society that considers the use of knowledge in society a matter of shared democratic responsibility.

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.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

"This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 31, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Herzog, Lisa Citizen Knowledge

ISBN:

0-19-768174-3

0-19-768172-7

0-19-768173-5