Information and Power in History
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Group |
| ISBN-13 | 9780429438738 |
| Open Library | OL20735777W |
| Total publications | 2 |
| Coverage period | 2020 - 2020 |
| Language | EN |
The dawn of mass democracy at the end of the nineteenth century slowly made Western European politicians, journalists, and commercial actors realize that adequate information about voters was critical to democracy as well as electoral strategy. When the democratic electorate is perceived as a semi-autonomous force, no longer mainly a deferential but an active agent in shaping the polity, information about its opinions becomes essential to understanding political reality. Experts from that point on become crucial to the political history of information. A fertile terrain of historical research that has developed is the so-called ‘scientization of the social’, a concept coined by German social historian Lutz Raphael. An important juncture is the 1960s, which hailed the age of the ‘mediated expert’. After the Second World War, political science was instituted in Western Europe. In the Netherlands it originated among others from the field of constitutional law, for which it became a competitor as an explainer of politics.
Information and Power in History
Information and power in history
Informal investigative networks have uncovered classified information in the form of the Panama Papers and the WikiLeaks cables, and are even engaging in open source intelligence, thereby contesting the power of those in possession of information and laying bare the communications that are vital to the exercise of that power. As a universal element in human societies, information-power relationships at different times and in different places lead…
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Information and Power in History
Information and power in history
Informal investigative networks have uncovered classified information in the form of the Panama Papers and the WikiLeaks cables, and are even engaging in open source intelligence, thereby contesting the power of those in possession of information and laying bare the communications that are vital to the exercise of that power. As a universal element in human societies, information-power relationships at different times and in different places lead…