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The new politics of numbersutopia, evidence and democracy /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The new politics of numbersedited by Andrea Mennicken, Robert Salais.
Reminder of title:	utopia, evidence and democracy /
other author:	Mennicken, Andrea.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022.
Description:	xxvii, 497 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Legislative and Executive Politics.
Subject:	United States
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78201-6
ISBN:	9783030782016$q(electronic bk.)

The new politics of numbersutopia, evidence and democracy /
The new politics of numbersutopia, evidence and democracy /[electronic resource] :edited by Andrea Mennicken, Robert Salais. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - xxvii, 497 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Executive politics and governance. - Executive politics and governance..

1.The New Politics of Numbers: An Introduction -- 2.Creating a Socialist Society and Quantification in the USSR -- 3.The People's Algorithms: Social Credits and the Rise of China's Big (Br)other -- 4.Accounting for Who We Are and What We Could Be: Inventing Taxonomies of the Self in an Age of Social Disquiet -- 5.Quantifying Inequality: From Contentious Politics to the Dream of an Indifferent Power -- 6.Homo Statisticus: A History of France's General Public Statistical Infrastructure on Population since 1950 -- 7.A New Calculable World in the Making: Governing through Transnational Certification Standards -- 8.Do Performance Indicators Improve the Effectiveness of Development Aid? -- 9.Archaeology of a Quantification Device: Quantification, Policies and Politics in French Higher Education -- 10.Quantification = Economization? Numbers, Ratings and Rankings in the Prison Service of England and Wales -- 11.The Shifting Legitimacies of Price Measurements: Official Statistics and the Quantification of Pwofitasyon in the 2009 Social Struggle in Guadeloupe -- 12."La donnee n'est pas un donne": Statistics, Quantification and Democratic Choice -- 13.Free from Numbers? The Politics of Qualitative Sociology in the U.S. since 1945.

Open access.

This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple domains. It scrutinizes the power of numbers in terms of the changing relations between numbers and democracy, the politics of evidence, and dreams and schemes of bettering society. The book engages Foucault inspired studies of quantification and the economics of convention in a critical dialogue. In so doing, it provides a rich account of the plurality of possible ways in which numbers have come to govern, highlighting not only their disciplinary effects, but also the collective mobilization capacities quantification can offer. This book will be invaluable reading for academics and graduate students in a wide variety of disciplines, as well as policymakers interested in the opportunities and pitfalls of governance by numbers. Andrea Mennicken is Associate Professor of Accounting at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and Co-Director of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (LSE), UK. Robert Salais is Associate Researcher at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris-Saclay, France, and member of the Institutions and Historical Dynamics of the Economy and Society (IDHES) Centre, France.

ISBN: 9783030782016$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-78201-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

772455
Legislative and Executive Politics.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

236377
United States

LC Class. No.: HA37.U55

Dewey Class. No.: 320.0723

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