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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; 1. Introduction: Policy science, facts and the post-truth challenge; 2. Post-truth defined; 3. Post-truth: Ignorance and ¿anything goes¿; 4. The political rise of the post-truth culture; 5. Emotion and post-truth: living with falsehoods; 6. Social media and disinformation; 7. Beyond the critique: rescuing interpretive social science; 8. The interpretive policy-analytic approach: social meanings and alternative realities; 9. Social Meaning in Interpretive Policy Analysis; 10. Interpretive social science and the scientific community: The ¿hard¿ sciences; 11. Citizens confront the experts: Context and emotion in ordinary reason; 12. Political and policy knowledge as ordinary practical knowledge; 13. Climate policy and denialism: A political illustration; 14. Climate Policy and politics: the social translation of evidence into political knowledge; 15. Climate research: Uncertain knowledge and falsification; 16. COVID-19 denialism: Interpreting narrative arguments; 17. Narrative arguments and the policy-analytic challenge: Interpreting COVID-19 statistics in social context; 18. Rejecting COVID-19 lockdown: Interpreting political-economic and ideological arguments; 19. Deliberating with post-truth deniers: Concluding remarks; References.
Zusammenfassung
This Element shows that the effort to understand the phenomenon of post truth 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.
