The Post-Factual Polity
The Post-Factual Polity

Author: Haris Alibašić

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2024-05-01

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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In The Post-Factual Polity: Ethical, Governance, Administrative, and Policy Crises in the Disinformation Era, Haris Alibaši? presents a compelling and timely examination of the intricate challenges facing our society in the age of disinformation and misinformation. This groundbreaking book delves into the critical intersection of ethics, governance, and the pervasive influence of post-factual politics, offering a nuanced understanding of the issues that shape public policy and administration in the digital era. Haris Alibaši?, with his extensive experience and scholarly insight, guides readers through the complexities of ethical governance amidst the rise of disinformation. His insightful analysis, covering topics from the history of factual politics to the role of AI in public discourse, is essential for academics, policymakers, and anyone invested in the future of ethical governance. This book is a beacon for those seeking to navigate and counteract the challenges of misinformation, aiming to foster a more informed, ethical, and resilient society. The Post-Factual Polity is more than a book; it is an urgent call to action, a roadmap for navigating the tumultuous landscape of modern governance, and a testament to the power of truth in an era of uncertainty. As an authoritative source in the field, it is poised to become a vital reference for those dedicated to upholding the principles of democracy and integrity in public policy and administration.

The Post-Factual Polity
The Post-Factual Polity

Author: Haris Alibasic

Publisher:

Published: 2024-05-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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In The Post-Factual Polity: Ethical, Governance, Administrative, and Policy Crises in the Disinformation Era, Haris Alibasic presents a compelling and timely examination of the intricate challenges facing our society in the age of disinformation and misinformation. This groundbreaking book delves into the critical intersection of ethics, governance, and the pervasive influence of post-factual politics, offering a nuanced understanding of the issues that shape public policy and administration in the digital era. Haris Alibasic, with his extensive experience and scholarly insight, guides readers through the complexities of ethical governance amidst the rise of disinformation. His insightful analysis, covering topics from the history of factual politics to the role of AI in public discourse, is essential for academics, policymakers, and anyone invested in the future of ethical governance. This book is a beacon for those seeking to navigate and counteract the challenges of misinformation, aiming to foster a more informed, ethical, and resilient society. The Post-Factual Polity is more than a book; it is an urgent call to action, a roadmap for navigating the tumultuous landscape of modern governance, and a testament to the power of truth in an era of uncertainty. As an authoritative source in the field, it is poised to become a vital reference for those dedicated to upholding the principles of democracy and integrity in public policy and administration.

Truth and Post-Truth in Public Policy
Truth and Post-Truth in Public Policy

Author: Frank Fischer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-12-09

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1108847412

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The phenomenon of post-truth poses a problem for the public policy-oriented sciences, including policy analysis. Along with “fake news,” the post-truth denial of facts constitutes a major concern for numerous policy fields. Whereas a standard response is to call for more and better factual information, this Element shows that the effort to understand this phenomenon has to go beyond the emphasis on facts to include an understanding of the social meanings that get attached to facts in the political world of public policy. The challenge is thus seen to be as much about a politics of meaning as it is about epistemology. The analysis here supplements the examination of facts with an interpretive policy-analytic approach to gain a fuller understanding of post-truth. The importance of the interpretive perspective is illustrated by examining the policy arguments that have shaped policy controversies related to climate change and coronavirus denial.

Understanding Emotions in Post-Factual Politics
Understanding Emotions in Post-Factual Politics

Author: Anna Durnová

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1788114825

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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} Post-factual politics has united scientists and civil society in a public defence of truth, however, the battle may already have been lost to a binarity of facts and emotions. Analysing and comparing scientists’ protests against the Trump presidency with famous scientific controversies in modern medicine, this innovative book redefines truth as a negotiation in public discourse between the interplay of values, beliefs and facts. It shows that in order to understand post-factual politics we must unveil emotion’s role in knowledge-making.

Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy
Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy

Author: Johan Farkas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-23

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1000507289

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Western societies are under siege, as fake news, post-truth and alternative facts are undermining the very core of democracy. This dystopian narrative is currently circulated by intellectuals, journalists and policy makers worldwide. In this book, Johan Farkas and Jannick Schou deliver a comprehensive study of post-truth discourses. They critically map the normative ideas contained in these and present a forceful call for deepening democracy. The dominant narrative of our time is that democracy is in a state of emergency caused by social media, changes to journalism and misinformed masses. This crisis needs to be resolved by reinstating truth at the heart of democracy, even if this means curtailing civic participation and popular sovereignty. Engaging with critical political philosophy, Farkas and Schou argue that these solutions neglect the fact that democracy has never been about truth alone: it is equally about the voice of the democratic people. Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy delivers a sobering diagnosis of our times. It maps contemporary discourses on truth and democracy, foregrounds their normative foundations and connects these to historical changes within liberal democracies. The book will be of interest to students and scholars studying the current state and future of democracy, as well as to a politically informed readership.

An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy
An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy

Author: Alison Stone

Publisher: Polity

Published: 2007-12-17

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0745638821

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This is the first book to offer a systematic account of feminist philosophy as a distinctive field of philosophy. The book introduces key issues and debates in feminist philosophy including: the nature of sex, gender, and the body; the relation between gender, sexuality, and sexual difference; whether there is anything that all women have in common; and the nature of birth and its centrality to human existence. An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy shows how feminist thinking on these and related topics has developed since the 1960s. The book also explains how feminist philosophy relates to the many forms of feminist politics. The book provides clear, succinct and readable accounts of key feminist thinkers including de Beauvoir, Butler, Gilligan, Irigaray, and MacKinnon. The book also introduces other thinkers who have influenced feminist philosophy including Arendt, Foucault, Freud, and Lacan. Accessible in approach, this book is ideal for students and researchers interested in feminist philosophy, feminist theory, women's studies, and political theory. It will also appeal to the general reader.

The Increasingly United States
The Increasingly United States

Author: Daniel J. Hopkins

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-05-30

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 022653040X

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In a campaign for state or local office these days, you’re as likely today to hear accusations that an opponent advanced Obamacare or supported Donald Trump as you are to hear about issues affecting the state or local community. This is because American political behavior has become substantially more nationalized. American voters are far more engaged with and knowledgeable about what’s happening in Washington, DC, than in similar messages whether they are in the South, the Northeast, or the Midwest. Gone are the days when all politics was local. With The Increasingly United States, Daniel J. Hopkins explores this trend and its implications for the American political system. The change is significant in part because it works against a key rationale of America’s federalist system, which was built on the assumption that citizens would be more strongly attached to their states and localities. It also has profound implications for how voters are represented. If voters are well informed about state politics, for example, the governor has an incentive to deliver what voters—or at least a pivotal segment of them—want. But if voters are likely to back the same party in gubernatorial as in presidential elections irrespective of the governor’s actions in office, governors may instead come to see their ambitions as tethered more closely to their status in the national party.

Politics and the English Language
Politics and the English Language

Author: George Orwell

Publisher: Renard Press Ltd

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1913724271

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George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Democracy and Political Ignorance
Democracy and Political Ignorance

Author: Ilya Somin

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2013-10-02

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0804789312

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One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Often, many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. This may be rational, but it creates a nation of people with little political knowledge and little ability to objectively evaluate what they do know. In Democracy and Political Ignorance, Ilya Somin mines the depths of ignorance in America and reveals the extent to which it is a major problem for democracy. Somin weighs various options for solving this problem, arguing that political ignorance is best mitigated and its effects lessened by decentralizing and limiting government. Somin provocatively argues that people make better decisions when they choose what to purchase in the market or which state or local government to live under, than when they vote at the ballot box, because they have stronger incentives to acquire relevant information and to use it wisely.

Cultural Populism
Cultural Populism

Author: Jim McGuigan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11-01

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1134924100

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First Published in 2004. This book provides a novel understanding of current thought and enquiry in the study of popular culture and communications media. The populist sentiments and impulses underlying cultural studies and its postmodernist variants are explored and criticized sympathetically. An exclusively consumptionist trend of analysis is identified and shown to be an unsatisfactory means of accounting for the complex material conditions and mediations that shape ordinary people’s pleasures and opportunities for personal and political expression. Through detailed consideration of the work of Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and ‘the Birmingham School’, John Fiske, youth subcultural analysis, popular television study, and issues generally concerned with public communication (including advertising, arts and broadcasting policies, children’s television, tabloid journalism, feminism and pornography, the Rushdie affair, and the collapse of communism), Jim McGuigan sets out a distinctive case for recovering critical analysis of popular culture in a rapidly changing, conflict-ridden world. The book is an accessible introduction to past and present debates for undergraduate students, and it poses some challenging theses for postgraduate students, researchers and lecturers.