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Cultural Boundaries of Science : Credibility on the Line
Why is science so credible? Usual answers centre on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments.This text argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies downstream, when scientific claims leave laboratories and enter courtrooms, boardrooms, and living rooms.On such occasions, we use "maps" to decide who to believe - cultural maps demarcating "science" from pseudoscience, ideology, faith, or nonsense.Thomas F. Gieryn looks at episodes of boundary-work: Was phrenology good science?How about cold fusion? Is social science really scientific? Is organic farming? After centuries of disputes like these, Gieryn finds no stable criteria that absolutely distinguish science from non-science.Science remains a pliable cultural space, flexibly reshaped to claim credibility for some beliefs while denying it to others.In an epilogue, Gieryn finds this same controversy at the heart of the raging "science wars".
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Borrowing Credibility : Global Banks and Monetary Regimes
Nations with credible monetary regimes borrow at lower interest rates in international markets and are less likely to suffer speculative attacks and currency crises.While scholars typically attribute credibility to domestic institutions or international agreements, Jana Grittersová argues that when reputable multinational banks headquartered in Western Europe or North America open branches and subsidiaries within a nation, they enhance that nation’s monetary credibility. These banks enhance credibility by promoting financial transparency in the local system, improving the quality of banking regulation and supervision, and by serving as private lenders of last resort.Reputable multinational banks provide an enforcement mechanism for publicized economic policies, signaling to international financial markets that the host government is committed to low inflation and stable currency. Grittersová examines actual changes in government behavior of nations trying to gain legitimacy in international financial markets, and the ways in which perceptions of these nations change in relation to multinational banks.In addition to quantitative analysis of over 80 emerging-market countries, she offers extensive case studies of credibility building in the transition countries of Eastern Europe, Argentina in 2001, and the global financial crisis of 2008.Grittersová illuminates the complex interactions between multinational banks and national policymaking that characterize the process of financial globalization to reveal the importance of market confidence in a world of mobile capital.
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Government Statistical Agencies and the Politics of Credibility
Who decides how official statistics are produced? Do politicians have control or are key decisions left to statisticians in independent statistical agencies?Interviews with statisticians in Australia, Canada, Sweden, the UK and the USA were conducted to get insider perspectives on the nature of decision making in government statistical administration.While the popular adage suggests there are 'lies, damned lies and statistics', this research shows that official statistics in liberal democracies are far from mistruths; they are consistently insulated from direct political interference.Yet, a range of subtle pressures and tensions exist that governments and statisticians must manage.The power over statistics is distributed differently in different countries, and this book explains why.Differences in decision-making powers across countries are the result of shifting pressures politicians and statisticians face to be credible, and the different national contexts that provide distinctive institutional settings for the production of government numbers.
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Miracles – The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts
Christianity Today 2013 Book Award WinnerWinner of The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship's 2012 Award of Excellence2011 Book of the Year, Christianbook.com's Academic BlogMost modern prejudice against biblical miracle reports depends on David Hume's argument that uniform human experience precluded miracles.Yet current research shows that human experience is far from uniform.In fact, hundreds of millions of people today claim to have experienced miracles.New Testament scholar Craig Keener argues that it is time to rethink Hume's argument in light of the contemporary evidence available to us.This wide-ranging and meticulously researched two-volume study presents the most thorough current defense of the credibility of the miracle reports in the Gospels and Acts.Drawing on claims from a range of global cultures and taking a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, Keener suggests that many miracle accounts throughout history and from contemporary times are best explained as genuine divine acts, lending credence to the biblical miracle reports.
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Asylum and Nonreligion : Emotions, Evidence-making and Credibility
This open access Palgrave Pivot explores the experiences of nonreligious asylum seekers in Northern Europe.While religious persecution is often cited as a reason for seeking asylum, nonbelievers also face significant persecution in their home countries due to their lack of religious affiliation.Despite this, their experiences are frequently overlooked in academic discussions, and asylum assessment centers have been slow to develop frameworks that address their unique challenges.Drawing on in-depth qualitative research from Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the challenges nonbelievers face, as well as the opportunities they create as agents within the system.Emotions offer an analytical window into the world of nonbelievers, highlighting their desperation and innovative practices of evidence creation.Throughout the book, the logics of credibility assessment are critically explored, revealing the cultural chasm between assessors and nonreligious claimants.
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Theory and Credibility : Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science
A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social scienceThe credibility revolution, with its emphasis on empirical methods for causal inference, has led to concerns among scholars that the canonical questions about politics and society are being neglected because they are no longer deemed answerable.Theory and Credibility stakes out an opposing view—presenting a new vision of how, working together, the credibility revolution and formal theory can advance social scientific inquiry. This authoritative book covers the conceptual foundations and practicalities of both model building and research design, providing a new framework to link theory and empirics.Drawing on diverse examples from political science, it presents a typology of the rich set of interactions that are possible between theory and empirics.This typology opens up new ways for scholars to make progress on substantive questions, and enables researchers from disparate traditions to gain a deeper appreciation for each other's work and why it matters. Theory and Credibility shows theorists how to create models that are genuinely useful to empirical inquiry, and helps empiricists better understand how to structure their research in ways that speak to theoretically meaningful questions.
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The Credibility Challenge : How Democracy Aid Influences Election Violence
The key to the impact of international election support is credibility; credible elections are less likely to turn violent.So argues Inken von Borzyskowski in The Credibility Challenge, in which she provides an explanation of why and when election support can increase or reduce violence.Von Borzyskowski answers four major questions: Under what circumstances can election support influence election violence?How can election support shape the incentives of domestic actors to engage in or abstain from violence?Does support help reduce violence or increase it? And, which type of support—observation or technical assistance—is better in each instance?The Credibility Challenge pulls broad quantitative evidence and qualitative observations from Guyana, Liberia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Bangladesh to respond to these questions.Von Borzyskowski finds that international democracy aid matters for election credibility and violence; outside observers can exacerbate postelection violence if they cast doubt on election credibility; and technical assistance helps build electoral institutions, improves election credibility, and reduces violence.Her results advance research and policy on peacebuilding and democracy promotion in new and surprising ways.
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