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The World of Indicators - The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,051
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The World of Indicators - The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification (Paperback): Richard Rottenburg, Sally E....

The World of Indicators - The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification (Paperback)

Richard Rottenburg, Sally E. Merry, Sung-Joon Park, Johanna Mugler

Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

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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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Release date: September 2015
Editors: Richard Rottenburg • Sally E. Merry • Sung-Joon Park • Johanna Mugler
Dimensions: 224 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-45083-7
Categories: Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Law & society
LSN: 1-107-45083-7
Barcode: 9781107450837

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