Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy

by Herzog

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197681719
• ISBN13: 9780197681718
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 8.9"