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Governance by indicators Global power through quantification and rankings

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2015Description: 491P xiii PBISBN:
  • 9780198747932
DDC classification:
  • 320.0727 DAV
Contents:
Content : Front Matter Part I Indicators as Technologies of Knowledge Production and Global Governance: key concepts and Approaches 1 Introduction: Global Governance by Indicators Kevin E. Davis, Benedict Kingsbury, and Sally Engle Merry 2 Beyond Supply and Demand: A Political-Economic Conceptual Model Tim Büthe 3 Taming and Framing Indicators: A Legal Reconstruction of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Armin von Bogdandy and Matthias Goldmann 4 The Dynamism of Indicators Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder 5 Semiotics of Indicators: The Case of Corporate Human Rights Responsibility Ronen Shamir and Dana Weiss 6 Governmentalizing Sovereignty: Indexes of State Fragility and the Calculability of Political Order Nehal Bhuta Part II Indicators, Power, and Authority in Global Governance 7 Re-Construction of Private Indicators for Public Purposes Katharina Pistor 8 Legal Yardsticks: International Financial Institutions as Diagnosticians and Designers of the Laws of Nations Terence C. Halliday 9 From Diagnosing Under-immunization to Evaluating Health Care Systems Angelina Fisher Part III Translation, Transplantation, and Adaptation: The Relationship between “Global” and “Local” in Indicator Production and Use 10 Internally Displaced Population in Colombia René Urueña 11 Problems of Power in the Design of Indicators of Safety and Justice in the Global South* Christopher Stone Part IV Case Studies: Assessing the Strengths, Problems, and Effects of Indicators in Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance, and Social Investment 12 Measuring Human Rights Ann Janette Rosga and Margaret L. Satterthwaite 13 The Use of Indicators to Measure Government Responses to Human Trafficking Anne T. Gallagher and Janie Chuang 14 Fighting Human Trafficking or Instituting Authoritarian Control? Marina Zaloznaya and John Hagan 15 Rights-based Humanitarian Indicators in Post-earthquake Haiti Margaret L. Satterthwaite 16 Impact Investment Indicators: A Critical Assessment Sarah Dadush Part V Regulating Indicators 17 Accountability in the Generation of Governance Indicators Nikhil K. Dutta 18 Public Regulation of Global Indicators Sabino Cassese and Lorenzo Casini
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Political Indicators

Political Science - Methodology

Ranking & Selection - Statistics

Content :
Front Matter
Part I Indicators as Technologies of Knowledge Production and Global Governance: key concepts and Approaches
1 Introduction: Global Governance by Indicators Kevin E. Davis, Benedict Kingsbury, and Sally Engle Merry
2 Beyond Supply and Demand: A Political-Economic Conceptual Model Tim Büthe
3 Taming and Framing Indicators: A Legal Reconstruction of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Armin von Bogdandy and Matthias Goldmann
4 The Dynamism of Indicators Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder
5 Semiotics of Indicators: The Case of Corporate Human Rights Responsibility Ronen Shamir and Dana Weiss
6 Governmentalizing Sovereignty: Indexes of State Fragility and the Calculability of Political Order
Nehal Bhuta
Part II Indicators, Power, and Authority in Global Governance
7 Re-Construction of Private Indicators for Public Purposes Katharina Pistor
8 Legal Yardsticks: International Financial Institutions as Diagnosticians and Designers of the Laws of Nations Terence C. Halliday
9 From Diagnosing Under-immunization to Evaluating Health Care Systems Angelina Fisher
Part III Translation, Transplantation, and Adaptation: The Relationship between “Global” and “Local” in Indicator Production and Use
10 Internally Displaced Population in Colombia René Urueña
11 Problems of Power in the Design of Indicators of Safety and Justice in the Global South*
Christopher Stone
Part IV Case Studies: Assessing the Strengths, Problems, and Effects of Indicators in Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance, and Social Investment
12 Measuring Human Rights Ann Janette Rosga and Margaret L. Satterthwaite
13 The Use of Indicators to Measure Government Responses to Human Trafficking Anne T. Gallagher and Janie Chuang
14 Fighting Human Trafficking or Instituting Authoritarian Control? Marina Zaloznaya and John Hagan
15 Rights-based Humanitarian Indicators in Post-earthquake Haiti Margaret L. Satterthwaite
16 Impact Investment Indicators: A Critical Assessment Sarah Dadush
Part V Regulating Indicators
17 Accountability in the Generation of Governance Indicators Nikhil K. Dutta
18 Public Regulation of Global Indicators Sabino Cassese and Lorenzo Casini

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