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The World of Indicators: The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification

The World of Indicators: The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification

The World of Indicators: The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification Paperback / softback - 2015

by Richard Rottenburg

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Paperback / softback. New. Indicators simplify complex issues and produce numeric evidence to guide and justify decision-making. However, we know little about the social processes constituting quantitative knowledge or its effects on public ordering practices. This book shows how technologies of quantification change our modes of knowing in subtle and often unrecognized ways.
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  • Title The World of Indicators: The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification
  • Author Richard Rottenburg
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 381
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date 2015-09-15
  • Features Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9781107450837
  • ISBN 9781107450837 / 1107450837
  • Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 6.01 x 0.82 in (23.06 x 15.27 x 2.08 cm)
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Social policy, Public administration - Statistical methods
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015021713
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306
  • Quantity available 10

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The twenty-first century has seen a further dramatic increase in the use of quantitative knowledge for governing social life after its explosion in the 1980s. Indicators and rankings play an increasing role in the way governmental and non-governmental organizations distribute attention, make decisions, and allocate scarce resources. Quantitative knowledge promises to be more objective and straightforward as well as more transparent and open for public debate than qualitative knowledge, thus producing more democratic decision-making. However, we know little about the social processes through which this knowledge is constituted nor its effects. Understanding how such numeric knowledge is produced and used is increasingly important as proliferating technologies of quantification alter modes of knowing in subtle and often unrecognized ways. This book explores the implications of the global multiplication of indicators as a specific technology of numeric knowledge production used in governance.

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