The New Politics of Numbers : Utopia, Evidence and Democracy. - Mennicken, Andrea; Salais, Robert (Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021)
A Cooperative Game Between Rational Actors (the Member States and the Commission) -- Quantification: Contrasting Rational Governance with Democratic Choice -- Democracy and the Emergence of the Category "Unemployment" -- Governance-Driven Quantification and "A-Democracy" -- Creating Cognitive Ambiguity -- Fabricating Proofs of Effectiveness and Efficiency -- Generating Difficulties to Articulate Alternative Legitimate Claims -- Social Criticism, Justice and Plurality of Quantification Regimes -- Introducing Justice and Democracy -- The "Informational Basis of Judgment in Justice" (IBJJ) -- Deliberative Inquiry as Data Processing -- Claiming for Another State -- Conclusion: Implications for Research on Quantification Processes -- References -- 13 Free from Numbers? The Politics of Qualitative Sociology in the U.S. Since 1945 -- Excluding Quantities? -- Interpretation and Determinism -- The American Soldier -- The Qualitative as Propaedeutic -- Interpretation Cannot Be Overlooked -- The Quantifier Blumer -- Ethnomethodology Between Accounts and Official Power -- Statistical Accounts -- Measurement by Fiat -- The Quantitativist Cicourel -- Radical Sociology, Quantification and the Welfare State -- Are Quantities Fascist? -- Light Travelling: Numbers as Gleanings -- Institutionalization of a "Qualitative Sociology" -- Common Ground -- A Bipolar Category -- Conclusion -- References -- 14 Afterword: Quantifying, Mediating and Intervening: The R Number and the Politics of Health in the Twenty-First Century -- Conclusions -- References -- Index.
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