The Politics and Science of Prevision

Governing and Probing the Future

Author(s): Andreas Wenger, Ursula Jasper, Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Sheila Jasanoff, Gunther Hellman, Michael Horowitz, Francis Gavin, Maria Carmen Lemos, Nicole Klenk, Stephen Nelson, Peter Katzenstein, Filippa Lentzos, Jean-Baptiste Gouyon, Brian Balmer, Corinne Bara, Jonas Schneider, Matthias Leese
Editor(s): Andreas Wenger, Ursula Jasper, Myriam Dunn Cavelty
Series: CSS Studies in Security and International Relations
Pages: 272
Publisher(s): Routledge
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Place: London

This edited volume inquires into the use of prediction at the intersection of politics and academia, and reflects upon the implications of future-oriented policy-making across different fields. The first part of the book discusses different academic perspectives and contributions to future-oriented policy-making. The second part discusses the role of future knowledge in decision-making across different empirical issues such as climate, health, finance, bio- and nuclear weapons, civil war, and crime. It analyses how prediction is integrated into public policy and governance, and how in return governance structures influence the making of knowledge about the future. The volume contributes to a better understanding of the complex interaction and feedback loops between the processes of creating knowledge about the future and the application of this future knowledge in public policy and governance.

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