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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