Knowing Governance

Nina Amelung, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Sonja van der Arend, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Nicolas Baya-Laffite, Université Paris-Est, France Jelle Behagel, Wageningen University, the Netherlands Christian Bueger, Cardiff University, UK Richard Freeman, University of Edinburgh, UK Brice Laurent, Mines ParisTech, France Rebecca-Lea Korinek, WZB Social Science Centre, Germany Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Technische Universität München, Germany Thomas Pfister, Zeppelin University, Germany Nicholas J Rowland, Pennsylvania State University, USA Arno Simons, Institute of Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), Germany Linda Soneryd, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Andy Stirling, Sussex University, UK Holger Strassheim, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany Jan-Peter Voß, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

"This is the manifesto of the knowledge turn in research about governance and public policy. By making knowledge central to the study of politics and policy choice, the authors explain how scientists, policy-makers and citizens engage in the production of meanings and representations about what governance is, how it is knowable and for what purposes. The book will have a formidable impact on the fields of science and technology studies, governance and the policy sciences." - Claudio M. Radaelli, University of Exeter, UK "For more than a quarter century, American scholars exploring the links between knowledge, expertise, and politics found few voices to engage with across the Atlantic. Knowing Governance definitively ends that silence. Featuring some of the brightest young Europeans working at the nexus of science and technology studies and political science, the book establishes beyond question that modern states are states of knowledge. Ranging across issues from piracy to emissions trading, these essays lay the groundwork for a genuinely transnational conversation on the ways in which contemporary practices of governance construct their ways of knowing, and in turn are shaped by the knowledges they generate." - Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School, USA "The STS-informed perspective of the process of knowing governance creating political order is breaking new ground. In this book, a new generation of scholars offers an interesting variety of unusual cases, and novel views on age-old problems." - Arie Rip, University of Twente, the Netherlands "Historians and sociologists, from Max Weber to Michel Foucault, have long documented the connections between science and politics, and between the history of the state and the history of statistics. But researchers have paid remarkably little attention to the politics of the political sciences, nor concerned themselves with the relation between governance, and knowledge about governance. Knowing Governance does nothing less than open up a whole new field of inquiry, posing urgent new questions for the disciplines of politics." - Andrew Barry, University College London, UK

• 1. Introduction: Knowing Governance; Jan-Peter Voss; Richard Freeman PART I: KNOWING THE BODY POLITIC: COLLECTIVE AGENCY 2. Modeling The State: An Actor-Network Approach; Jan-Hendrik Passoth; Nicholas Rowland 3. Co-Producing European Integration: Research, Policy And Welfare Activation; Thomas Pfister 4. Experimenting With Global Governance: Learning Lessons In The Contact Group On Piracy; Christian Bueger PART II: KNOWING INSTRUMENTS: MODES OF GOVERNING 5. Cultivating 'Nudge': Behavioural Governance In The UK; Holger Strassheim; Rebecca Korinek 6. Realizing Instruments: Performativity In Emissions Trading And Citizen Panels; Jan-Peter Voss 7. Translating Participation: Scenario Workshops And Citizens' Juries Across Situations And Contexts; Linda Soneryd; Nina Amelung PART III: MATERIAL KNOWING: DOCUMENTS AND BODIES 8. Fact-Making In Permit Markets: Document Networks As Infrastructures Of Emissions Trading; Arno Simons 9. Training Participants: Building A Community Of Practice To Negotiate Sustainability; Sonja Van Der Arend; Jelle Behagel PART IV: BOUNDARIES OF KNOWING: SCIENCE AND POLITICS 10. Boundary-Making In The International Organisation: Public Engagement Expertise At The OECD; Brice Laurent 11. Black-Boxing Sustainable Development: Environmental Impact Assessment On The River Uruguay; Nicolas Baya-Laffite PART V: KNOWING REFLEXIVELY: DOING KNOWLEDGE POLITICS 12. Knowing Doing Governing: Realising Heterodyne Democracies; Andrew Stirling