Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction. Who Decides? 1
6. Chapter 1. Reading the International Mind: International Public Opinion in Early Twentieth Century Anglo-American Thought 27
7. Chapter 2. Militant Democracy as Decisionist Liberalism: Reason and Power in the Work of Karl Loewenstein 64
8. Chapter 3. Parliamentary and Electoral Decisions as Political Acts 85
9. Chapter 4. Decision and Decisionism 109
10. Chapter 5. How Having Reasons Became Making a Decision: The Cold War Rise of Decision Theory and the Invention of Rational Choice 135
11. Chapter 6. Computable Rationality, NUTS, and the Nuclear Leviathan 173
12. Chapter 7. The Unlikely Revolutionaries: Decision Sciences in the Soviet Government 217
13. Chapter 8. Prediction and Social Choice: Daniel Bell and Future Research 250
14. Chapter 9. Predictive Algorithms and Criminal Sentencing 272
15. Conclusion. The Myth of the Decision 295
16. Index 303