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Official Statistics-A Plaything of Politics? - On the Interaction of Politics, Official Statistics, and Ethical Principles (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Official Statistics-A Plaything of Politics? - On the Interaction of Politics, Official Statistics, and Ethical Principles (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book describes official statistics as a tool to hold up a
mirror to society - but also as an instrument for those who can
manipulate this mirror. It addresses the precarious interaction of
politics, official statistics, and ethical principles. Three sets
of themes can be derived from this relationship, which are the
focus of this book: Political systems and guiding principles,
official statistics as a science of the state, and ethical issues
arising from them. Ultimately, the determining factor is the
political system that exists in each case. The book contains eleven
chapters. The first three focus on the key concepts of the book:
power and morality, official statistics and policy making, and
ethical principles for statistical work. Three further chapters
focus on episodes that illustrate, as "drastic" examples, the
misuse of official statistics over the past hundred years, covering
the situation in the Soviet Union, the Third Reich and Greece. The
remaining five chapters take up current topics that pose particular
challenges to official statistics. These are the phenomena
paraphrased by digitalisation, globalisation, happiness research,
overpopulation, migration, the Covid-19 pandemic and climate
change. The book is primarily aimed at statisticians working in
national and international statistical institutions, but also at
readers interested in statistics, national accounts, economic and
statistics history, and ethical issues.
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