Elections as Knowledge Systems

Published: Nov. 2, 2016, 1:04 p.m.

b"Just in time for the last gasps of the 2016 presidential election, Heather Ross chats with STS expert Clark Miller about elections as knowledge systems. Recorded at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University: sfis.asu.edu\\n\\nShow Notes\\n\\xb7 Clark wrote a research article after the 2000 election on the topic of elections as knowledge systems. Check it out here: http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/stable/4144333 \\n\\n\\xb7 Clark and Heather discuss \\u201cImagined Democracies\\u201d by Israeli author Professor Yaron Ezrahi. More info on the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Imagined-Democracies-Necessary-Political-Fictions/dp/1107025753\\n\\n\\xb7 Elections are an instrument for measuring the will of the electorate.\\n\\n\\xb7 Florida's issues in 2000 made the inner workings of the electoral knowledge system more visible and created the sense that it was possible that elections could get messed up, challenging the way we think about elections.\\n\\n\\xb7 For further reading on elections, democracy, and governance, check out these articles by Clark:\\n\\nKnowledge and democracy: The epistemics of self-governance \\nhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/309512641_Knowledge_and_democracy_The_epistemics_of_self-governance\\n\\nInterrogating the Civic Epistemology of American Democracy: Stability and Instability in the 2000 US Presidential Election\\nhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/249722303_Interrogating_the_Civic_Epistemology_of_American_Democracy_Stability_and_Instability_in_the_2000_US_Presidential_Election?ev=prf_pub"