Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Scrutinizes the relationships between quantification, administrative capacity, and democracy across different policy sectors and countries
- Offers unique cross-national and cross-sectoral insight
- Covers how managerialist ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted and how they have come to matter
Part of the book series: Executive Politics and Governance (EXPOLGOV)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Quantification as Utopia
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The Politics of Evidence
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Voicing for Democracy
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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. In 2013-2014 she was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany.
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. He was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, in 2005-2006 and of the Nantes Institute of Advanced Studies, France, in 2011-2012
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The New Politics of Numbers
Book Subtitle: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy
Editors: Andrea Mennicken, Robert Salais
Series Title: Executive Politics and Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78201-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78200-9Published: 13 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78203-0Published: 13 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78201-6Published: 11 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-367X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3688
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 497
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Legislative and Executive Politics, Public Administration, Public Policy