The New Politics of Numbers

Utopia, Evidence and Democracy
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-78200-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 497 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 788 g

Reihe: Executive Politics and Governance

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 opportunitiesand pitfalls of governance by numbers.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mennicken, Andrea

Salais, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 donnée n’est pas un donné”: Statistics, Quantification and Democratic Choice.- 13.Free from Numbers? The Politics of Qualitative Sociology in the U.S. since 1945.

Über Autor(innen)

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. In 2013-2014 she was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany.

Robert Salais is Associate Researcher at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay, France, and member of the Institutions and Historical Dynamics of the Economy and Society (IDHES) Centre, France. He was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, in 2005-2006 and of the Nantes Institute of Advanced Studies, France, in 2011-2012