The Quiet Power of Indicators

Herausgeber: Davis, Kevin E.; Merry, Sally Engle; Kingsbury, Benedict

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This highly accessible book investigates the rankings that increasingly influence perceptions of countries' governance and civil rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9781107075207
• ISBN-10: 1107075203
• Artikelnr.: 42024339

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the local-global life of indicators: law, power and
resistance Kevin Davis, Benedict Kingsbury and Sally Engle Merry; Part I.
Global Indicators of Governance, Corruption, and Rule of Law: 1.
International organizations and the production of indicators: the case of
freedom house Christopher G. Bradley; 2. Indicators and the law: a case
study of the rule of law index René Urueña; 3. Measuring corporate
accountability through global indicators Galit A. Sarfaty; 4. The quest for
measuring development: the role of the indicator bank María Angélica Prada
Uribe; 5. Qualitative and quantitative conditionality: accountability in
the EU accession and MCC processes Nikhil Dutta; Part II. Indicators in
Local Contexts: 6. Rule of law indicators as a political technology of
power in Romania Mihaela Serban; 7. Indicators, global expertise, and a
local political drama: producing and deploying corruption perception data
in postsocialist Albania Smoki Musaraj; 8. Evaluating the impact of
corruption (perception) indicators on governance discourses in Kenya Migai
Akech; 9. Measuring labour market efficiency: indicators that fuel an
ideological war and undermine social concern and trust in the South African
regulatory process Debbie Collier and Paul Benjamin; Conclusion: contesting
global indicators David Nelken.