The New Politics of Numbers

This 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 doma...

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description This 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-722762025-08-13T14:11:19Z The New Politics of Numbers Mennicken, Andrea Salais, Robert Open Access quantification quantification practices Executive Politics Governance Numbers Evidence Democracy politics of evidence Foucault administrative capacity policy sectors economics of convention utopia new public management convention theory social criticism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration This 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. 2021-10-14T04:06:37Z 2021-10-14T04:06:37Z 2021-10-13T13:52:55Z 2022 book ONIX_20211013_9783030782016_17 OCN: 1286902273 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50949 9783030782016 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72276 eng Executive Politics and Governance open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50949/1/978-3-030-78201-6.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50949/1/978-3-030-78201-6.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50949/1/978-3-030-78201-6.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-78201-6 10.1007/978-3-030-78201-6 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 7ca21cb0-695a-4672-a4f0-88d71a11d2e0 9783030782016 Palgrave Macmillan 497 [grantnumber unknown] open access
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The New Politics of Numbers
title The New Politics of Numbers
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quantification
quantification practices
Executive Politics
Governance
Numbers
Evidence
Democracy
politics of evidence
Foucault
administrative capacity
policy sectors
economics of convention
utopia
new public management
convention theory
social criticism
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration
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quantification
quantification practices
Executive Politics
Governance
Numbers
Evidence
Democracy
politics of evidence
Foucault
administrative capacity
policy sectors
economics of convention
utopia
new public management
convention theory
social criticism
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration
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