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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
R1,062 Discovery Miles 10 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

System Design for Cooperative Diversity Wireless Networks (Paperback): Sung-Joon Park, Wayne Stark System Design for Cooperative Diversity Wireless Networks (Paperback)
Sung-Joon Park, Wayne Stark
R2,067 Discovery Miles 20 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The World of Indicators - The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification (Hardcover): Richard Rottenburg, Sally E.... The World of Indicators - The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification (Hardcover)
Richard Rottenburg, Sally E. Merry, Sung-Joon Park, Johanna Mugler
R2,260 Discovery Miles 22 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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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