Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2016, 12:00 - 14:00 iCal

ipw lecture mit Anne Loeber

The challenge of 21st century governance: organizing political judgment and accountability in a networked society

Konferenzraum IPW (A222), NIG 2. Stock
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien

Lecture

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Characteristic of the polity in the 21st century is the loosening up of the connection between issues, publics, and territory. Public issues are addressed in networks of firms, citizens and governments on the local, regional, national and global level. This has a profound impact on political judgment (and its counterpart, public accountability), which is institutionalized essentially as a faculty of state-based representative democracy. How can the capacity of ‘judging together as to what to do next given circumstances’ in view of the community writ-large be organised in miscellaneous networks of state and non-state actors? How can, for example, a balance be struck between individual and collective ambitions and responsibilities in regard to private issues that are public in their consequences such as genetic testing or climate adaptation? In this talk, the audience is invited to think ‘to and fro’ between such empirical cases and Hannah Arendt’s theoretical notion of ‘representative thinking’ in order to re-conceptualize political judgment as an aspect of network-based problem solving. Redefining representation as participation-by-proxy, the focus is on outlining new roles of government to enable political judgment by creating ‘shared spaces’ in the physical and the digital world.

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Veranstalter

Institut für Politikwissenschaft

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Kontakt

Johannes Starkbaum
Universität Wien
Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Universität Wien
+ 43 1 4277
johannes.starkbaum@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Montag, 17. Oktober 2016, 14:31
Letzte Änderung am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2016, 11:11