Citizen Knowledge
Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 November 2023
- ISBN 9780197681718
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 165x226x43 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English 510
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Short description:
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.
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Many democratic societies currently struggle with issues around knowledge: fake news, distrust of experts, a fear of technocratic tendencies. In Citizen Knowledge, Lisa Herzog discusses how knowledge, understood in a broad sense, should be dealt with in societies that combine a democratic political system with a capitalist economic system. How do citizens learn about politics? How do new scientific insights make their way into politics? What role can markets play in processing decentralized knowledge?
Herzog takes on the perspective of "democratic institutionalism," which focuses on the institutions that enable an inclusive and stable democratic life. She 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 rather than democracy. Complex societies need different mechanisms for dealing with knowledge, among which markets, democratic deliberation, and expert communities are central. Citizen Knowledge emphasizes the responsibility of bearers of knowledge and the need to support institutions that promote active and informed citizenship. Through this lens, Herzog develops the vision of an egalitarian society that considers the use of knowledge in society not a matter of markets, but of shared democratic responsibility, supported by epistemic infrastructures. As such, Herzog's argument contributes to political epistemology, a new subdiscipline of philosophy, with a specific focus on the interrelation between economic and political processes.
Citizen Knowledge draws from both the history of ideas and systematic arguments about the nature of knowledge to propose reforms for a more unified and flourishing democratic system.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Lisa Herzog's important and timely book provides guidance for how to respond to these problems by offering a theory for how democracy and capitalism should be combined.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Knowledge - social, practical, political
Chapter 3: Markets, deliberators, experts
Chapter 4: The rise of free market thinking
Chapter 5: What's wrong with the "marketplace of ideas"?
Chapter 6: Democratic institutionalism
Chapter 7: Putting the market in its place
Chapter 8: Experts in democracies
Chapter 9: The epistemic infrastructure of democracy
Chapter 10: The epistemic benefits of social justice
Chapter 11: Defending democracy--socially, institutionally, pragmatically
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