Governance by indicators : global power through quantification and rankings / eedited by Kevin E. Davis [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Kevin E., editor.

New York University. Institute for International Law and Justice.

Series:

Law and global governance.

Law and Global Governance Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Methodology.

Political science.

Political indicators.

Politics, Practical--Statistical methods.

Politics, Practical.

Ranking and selection (Statistics)--Political aspects.

Ranking and selection (Statistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1137 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The use of indicators as a technique of global governance is increasing rapidly. Major examples include the World Bank's Doing Business Indicators, the World Bank's Good Governance and Rule of Law indicators, the Millennium Development Goals, and the indicators produced by Transparency International. Human rights indicators are being developed in the UN and regional and advocacy organizations. The burgeoning production and use of indicators has not, however, been accompanied bysystematic comparative study of, or reflection on, the implications, possibilities, and pitfalls of this practice.This

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Part I: Indicators as Technologies of Knowledge Production and Global Governance: Key Concepts and Approaches; 1. Introduction: Global Governance by Indicators; 2. Beyond Supply and Demand: A Political-Economic Conceptual Model; 3. Taming and Framing Indicators: A Legal Reconstruction of the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA); 4. The Dynamism of Indicators; 5. Semiotics of Indicators: The Case of Corporate Human Rights Responsibility

6. Governmentalizing Sovereignty: Indexes of State Fragility and the Calculability of Political OrderPart II: Indicators, Power, and Authority in Global Governance; 7. Re-construction of Private Indicators for Public Purposes; 8. Legal Yardsticks: International Financial Institutions as Diagnosticians and Designers of the Laws of Nations; 9. From Diagnosing Under-immunization to Evaluating Health Care Systems: Immunization Coverage Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance

Part III: Translation, Transplantation, and Adaptation: The Relationship Between "Global" and "Local" in Indicator Production and Use10. Internally Displaced Population in Colombia: A Case Study on the Domestic Aspects of Indicators as Technologies of Global Governance; 11. Problems of Power in the Design of Indicators of Safety and Justice in the Global South; Part IV: Case Studies: Assessing The Strengths, Problems, and Effects of Indicators in Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance, and Social Investment; 12. Measuring Human Rights: UN Indicators in Critical Perspective

13. The Use of Indicators to Measure Government Responses to Human Trafficking14. Fighting Human Trafficking or Instituting Authoritarian Control? The Political Co-optation of Human Rights Protection in Belarus; 15. Rights-based Humanitarian Indicators in Post-earthquake Haiti; 16. Impact Investment Indicators: A Critical Assessment; Part V: Regulating Indicators; 17. Accountability in the Generation of Governance Indicators; 18. Public Regulation of Global Indicators; Index; Footnotes; ch01fn; ch02fn; ch03fn; ch04fn; ch05fn; ch06fn; ch07fn; ch08fn; ch09fn; ch10fn; ch11fn; ch12fn; ch13fn

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Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-994991-3

1-283-57628-7

9786613888730

0-19-163278-3

0-19-163277-5

OCLC:

811490577