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Knowing Governance : The Epistemic Construction of Political Order.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (303 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137514509
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.2
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Contents:
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 governing -- Material 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 Europe -- Making 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 Project -- Alchemists 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 -- Political performativity -- Realizing governance -- Emissions trading: economists make markets - but not alone -- The 'proof of principle' for emissions trading: the political dismantling of clean air regulation epistemically exploited -- The emissions trading breakthrough: a new political collective sets up a real-world experiment -- Emissions trading co-performed as objective function and collective interest -- Citizen panels: a technoscience ofdemocracy - and its politics -- Political practices brought into the lab -- Reflexive engagement with technologies of participation -- Epistemic constitution building is politically contested -- Conclusions.
Notes -- References -- 7: Translating Participation: Scenario Workshops and Citizens' Juries across Situations and Contexts -- Introduction -- Processes of translating and stabilizing public participation instruments -- Background to the two cases of participation instruments -- The translations of participation instruments into new contexts -- Shifted meanings of participatory governance -- Giving voice to citizens' views on controversial issues -- Conceptualizations of participants and public participation -- Conflictual or dialogical approaches -- Participation instruments as tools for empowering citizens or contesting power structures -- Stabilizing and diversifying ready-made designs for public participation -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Material Knowing: Documents and Bodies -- 8: Fact-making in Permit Markets: Document Networks as Infrastructures of Emissions Trading -- Introduction -- Directive 2003/87/EC as entry point -- Document networks -- Back (in)to the emissions trading network -- Connectivity and interaction -- Intertextual translations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9: Training Participants: Building a Community of Practice to Negotiate Sustainability -- Introduction: knowing participation -- The role of communities in the dynamics of governance knowledge -- Case study: the International Programme on the Management of Sustainability -- Origins and foundations of IPMS -- Organisation of the IPMS course -- Content of the programme -- A week of IPMS -- The experience of IPMS -- IPMS as a community of participatory practice -- The practice -- The community -- The domain -- Conclusions: the performativity of a community of participatory practice -- Notes -- References -- Part IV: Boundaries of Knowing: Science and Politics -- 10: Boundary-making in the International Organization: Public Engagement Expertise at the OECD.
Introduction -- Public engagement in nanotechnology at the OECD -- An international expertise about public engagement -- Problematizing public engagement as a set of activities -- Producing the report -- Opening up a questionnaire -- Writing the points for consideration -- Purifying -- Demarcating between (policy) expertise and normative judgement -- Demarcating policy expertise and technical expertise -- Purification processes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 11: Black-boxing Sustainable Development: Environmental Impact Assessment on the River Uruguay -- Introduction: black-boxing governance in instruments -- Black-boxing and diffusing EIA's governance script for sustainable development -- EIA's diffusion from US NEPA to transnational finance soft law -- EIA's black-boxed script of knowing governance -- EIA's black box at trial on the shores of the River Uruguay -- EIA to protect the installation of pulp mills -- EIA struggles on the River Uruguay -- Conclusion -- References -- Part V: Reflexive Knowing: Doing Knowledge Politics -- 12: Knowing Doing Governing: Realizing Heterodyne Democracies -- Imperatives for transformation -- Governing knowing -- Seeing like power -- Knowing power -- From sustainability to control -- Further ironies and paradoxes -- Heterodyne democracies -- Reflexively committed transformation -- Barriers to reflexive transformation -- Knowing doings -- Knowing doing governing -- References -- Index.
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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 governing -- Material 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 Europe -- Making 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 Project -- Alchemists 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 -- Political performativity -- Realizing governance -- Emissions trading: economists make markets - but not alone -- The 'proof of principle' for emissions trading: the political dismantling of clean air regulation epistemically exploited -- The emissions trading breakthrough: a new political collective sets up a real-world experiment -- Emissions trading co-performed as objective function and collective interest -- Citizen panels: a technoscience ofdemocracy - and its politics -- Political practices brought into the lab -- Reflexive engagement with technologies of participation -- Epistemic constitution building is politically contested -- Conclusions.

Notes -- References -- 7: Translating Participation: Scenario Workshops and Citizens' Juries across Situations and Contexts -- Introduction -- Processes of translating and stabilizing public participation instruments -- Background to the two cases of participation instruments -- The translations of participation instruments into new contexts -- Shifted meanings of participatory governance -- Giving voice to citizens' views on controversial issues -- Conceptualizations of participants and public participation -- Conflictual or dialogical approaches -- Participation instruments as tools for empowering citizens or contesting power structures -- Stabilizing and diversifying ready-made designs for public participation -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Material Knowing: Documents and Bodies -- 8: Fact-making in Permit Markets: Document Networks as Infrastructures of Emissions Trading -- Introduction -- Directive 2003/87/EC as entry point -- Document networks -- Back (in)to the emissions trading network -- Connectivity and interaction -- Intertextual translations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9: Training Participants: Building a Community of Practice to Negotiate Sustainability -- Introduction: knowing participation -- The role of communities in the dynamics of governance knowledge -- Case study: the International Programme on the Management of Sustainability -- Origins and foundations of IPMS -- Organisation of the IPMS course -- Content of the programme -- A week of IPMS -- The experience of IPMS -- IPMS as a community of participatory practice -- The practice -- The community -- The domain -- Conclusions: the performativity of a community of participatory practice -- Notes -- References -- Part IV: Boundaries of Knowing: Science and Politics -- 10: Boundary-making in the International Organization: Public Engagement Expertise at the OECD.

Introduction -- Public engagement in nanotechnology at the OECD -- An international expertise about public engagement -- Problematizing public engagement as a set of activities -- Producing the report -- Opening up a questionnaire -- Writing the points for consideration -- Purifying -- Demarcating between (policy) expertise and normative judgement -- Demarcating policy expertise and technical expertise -- Purification processes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 11: Black-boxing Sustainable Development: Environmental Impact Assessment on the River Uruguay -- Introduction: black-boxing governance in instruments -- Black-boxing and diffusing EIA's governance script for sustainable development -- EIA's diffusion from US NEPA to transnational finance soft law -- EIA's black-boxed script of knowing governance -- EIA's black box at trial on the shores of the River Uruguay -- EIA to protect the installation of pulp mills -- EIA struggles on the River Uruguay -- Conclusion -- References -- Part V: Reflexive Knowing: Doing Knowledge Politics -- 12: Knowing Doing Governing: Realizing Heterodyne Democracies -- Imperatives for transformation -- Governing knowing -- Seeing like power -- Knowing power -- From sustainability to control -- Further ironies and paradoxes -- Heterodyne democracies -- Reflexively committed transformation -- Barriers to reflexive transformation -- Knowing doings -- Knowing doing governing -- References -- Index.

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