LEADER 04841nam 22007095 450 001 9910503007403321 005 20250628110040.0 010 $a9783030782016 010 $a3030782018 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-78201-6 035 $a(CKB)5140000000013042 035 $aEBL6749218 035 $a(OCoLC)1313888019 035 $a(AU-PeEL)EBL6749218 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6749218 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72276 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-78201-6 035 $a(ODN)ODN0010171433 035 $a(oapen)doab72276 035 $a(EXLCZ)995140000000013042 100 $a20211011d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe New Politics of Numbers $eUtopia, Evidence and Democracy /$fedited by Andrea Mennicken, Robert Salais 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 $d2021 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (514 p.) 225 1 $aExecutive Politics and Governance,$x2946-3688 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9783030782009 311 08$a303078200X 327 $a1.The New Politics of Numbers: An Introduction -- 2.Creating a Socialist Society and Quantification in the USSR -- 3.The People's Algorithms: Social Credits and the Rise of China's Big (Br)other -- 4.Accounting for Who We Are and What We Could Be: Inventing Taxonomies of the Self in an Age of Social Disquiet -- 5.Quantifying Inequality: From Contentious Politics to the Dream of an Indifferent Power -- 6.Homo Statisticus: A History of France's General Public Statistical Infrastructure on Population since 1950 -- 7.A New Calculable World in the Making: Governing through Transnational Certification Standards -- 8.Do Performance Indicators Improve the Effectiveness of Development Aid? -- 9.Archaeology of a Quantification Device: Quantification, Policies and Politics in French Higher Education -- 10.Quantification = Economization? Numbers, Ratings and Rankings in the Prison Service of England and Wales -- 11.The Shifting Legitimacies of Price Measurements: Official Statistics and the Quantification of Pwofitasyon in the 2009 Social Struggle in Guadeloupe -- 12."La donnée n'est pas un donné": Statistics, Quantification and Democratic Choice -- 13.Free from Numbers? The Politics of Qualitative Sociology in the U.S. since 1945. 330 $aThis open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple domains. It scrutinizes the power of numbers in terms of the changing relations between numbers and democracy, the politics of evidence, and dreams and schemes of bettering society. The book engages Foucault inspired studies of quantification and the economics of convention in a critical dialogue. In so doing, it provides a rich account of the plurality of possible ways in which numbers have come to govern, highlighting not only their disciplinary effects, but also the collective mobilization capacities quantification can offer. This book will be invaluable reading for academics and graduate students in a wide variety of disciplines, as well as policymakers interested in the opportunities and pitfalls of governance by numbers. Andrea Mennicken is Associate Professor of Accounting at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and Co-Director of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (LSE), UK. Robert Salais is Associate Researcher at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay, France, and member of the Institutions and Historical Dynamics of the Economy and Society (IDHES) Centre, France. 410 0$aExecutive Politics and Governance,$x2946-3688 606 $aExecutive power 606 $aPublic administration 606 $aPolitical planning 606 $aExecutive Politics 606 $aPublic Administration 606 $aPublic Policy 615 0$aExecutive power. 615 0$aPublic administration. 615 0$aPolitical planning. 615 14$aExecutive Politics. 615 24$aPublic Administration. 615 24$aPublic Policy. 676 $a320.0723 676 $a320.01513 686 $aLAW001000$aPOL028000$2bisacsh 700 $aMennicken$b Andrea$01238466 701 $aSalais$b Robert$0141507 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910503007403321 996 $aThe New Politics of Numbers$92874236 997 $aUNINA