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The New Politics of Numbers : Utopia, Evidence and Democracy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mennicken, Andrea.
Other Authors: Salais, Robert.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Executive Politics and Governance Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword: What Numbers Do
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1 The New Politics of Numbers: An Introduction
  • Quantification as Utopia
  • The Politics of Evidence
  • Voicing for Democracy
  • Quantification: Where the Economics of Convention Approach Meets Foucault
  • References
  • Part I Quantification as Utopia
  • 2 Creating a Socialist Society and Quantification in the USSR
  • Inventing a New Form of Statistics for a New Model of Society
  • A New State Statistics Administration
  • A Complicated Demarcation Between Accounting and Statistics
  • A Task of Theoretical Deconstruction
  • Debates and Tensions Surrounding Statistical Theory
  • Tension Surrounding the Mean and the Law of Large Numbers
  • Tensions Around the Shift to the Random Model
  • What Form of Statistics for Constructing a New Order?
  • The Relationship Between Statistics and Accounting
  • Categorization of the Population and Censuses
  • Confidence in the Data and the Status of the Statistician
  • What Statistical Tools for a New Order?
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 3 The People's Algorithms: Social Credits and the Rise of China's Big (Br)other
  • The Earlier Chinese Dream
  • Personal Dossiers
  • Social Credit
  • The Total Information System
  • The Future Now
  • Bigger Than Big Other
  • References
  • 4 Accounting for Who We Are and Could Be: Inventing Taxonomies of the Self in an Age of Uncertainty
  • Corporeal Accounting Within Immaterial Capitalism
  • Calculation and the Living Body
  • The Quantified Self
  • Well-Being, Performance and Emotions as Core Issues of Leibschreiben (Writing the Body)
  • The Emerging Taxonomies of the Self
  • Inventing Representational Forms
  • Moral Conflicts in Quantifying the Self.
  • Quantifying Performance: Alternative Measures, Rational Planning and the Deficiency of Corporeal Sensations
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • 5 Quantifying Inequality: From Contentious Politics to the Dream of an Indifferent Power
  • Words: The Semantics of Poverty and the Syntax of the Threshold
  • Shifting Words
  • Moralization
  • The Threshold
  • Visibility and Obfuscation
  • Spatial Choreographies: From Inequality to Distance
  • Numbers: Measuring Inequality
  • Conclusions: The Dream of an Indifferent Power
  • References
  • Part II The Politics of Evidence
  • 6 Homo Statisticus: A History of France's General Public Statistical Infrastructure on Population Since 1950
  • The Representative Household Survey
  • The Biographical Investigation
  • The Matched Panels
  • Homo Statisticus: Three Types of Being Constructed by the Statistical Infrastructure
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 7 A New Calculable Global World in the Making: Governing Through Transnational Certification Standards
  • Introduction: The Evolving Politics of Calculable Worlds
  • From State Statistics to Government Through Standards: A Research Programme on the Politics of Conventional Forms and Engagements
  • Social Coding and Investments in Conventional Forms: The Prerequisites for the Politics of Quantification
  • Placing Value on Invested Forms: The Plurality of Orders of Worth Involved in Justifications and Criticisms Referring to the Common Good
  • The Worth of Standards
  • Standard-Setting in Search of Legitimacy: The Grammars of Commonality in the Plural
  • Committed to Objects: Valuable Regimes of Engagements with the World Affected by Standardization
  • Distinctive Features of a New Calculable World Governed by Certification Standards: Which Substitute for the Rule of Law in the Production of Regulations?
  • Made in Standard: All the Good that Money Can Buy.
  • Multi-Stakeholder Certification: A Liberal Public in Which Opting Individuals Are Formatted as Stakeholders and Options as Measurable Objectives
  • Participative Technologies and Procedures to Deliberate Over Regulations
  • A-liberal Conceptions of Communication and Their Managerial Reductions
  • Experiencing Participative Technologies in Practice: "Open Space" and Dialogue Dispositions Put to the Test of "Smallholders" Engaging in Them
  • Some Lessons Learnt on the "Participative" and "Legislative" Legitimacy of Governing by Certification Standard
  • A-testing, Pro-testing and Con-testing: Substitutes for the Judicial System in Putting the Standard Enforcement to a Critical Test
  • Audit Procedures
  • RSPO "Dispute Settlement Facility"
  • Contest: Formatting the Complaint in the Right Form for the Public
  • Attest: Land Appropriation and Appropriate Evidence
  • Protest: Direct "Private" Interaction
  • Some Lessons Learnt on the "Judicial" Legitimacy of Governing by Certification Standards
  • Discussion of the Certified Objectivity Sought by a "Standardizing Liberalism": Power-Knowledge and the Enlarged Analysis of Oppression and Criticism
  • References
  • 8 Do Performance Indicators Improve the Effectiveness of Development Aid?
  • The Harmful Effects of Performance Indicators
  • Querying Performance-Based Management in Third World Countries
  • Giving Aid Recipient Countries Greater Autonomy to Conduct Their Public Policy
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 9 Archaeology of a Quantification Device: Quantification, Policies and Politics in French Higher Education
  • The Bedrock: NPM, LOLF
  • Performance Indicators for French Universities: What Are Their Raisons D'être?
  • The Upper Stratum: The Micro-Conventions of Calculation
  • The Life of the Device: Context, Uses and Developments
  • 2006-2012
  • Since 2012
  • Conclusion
  • References.
  • Part III Voicing for Democracy
  • 10 Quantification = Economization? Numbers, Ratings and Rankings in the Prison Service of England and Wales
  • Quantifying and Marketizing: Prison Privatization, Quantification and the Ethos of Contestability
  • Limits of Marketizing Quantification
  • Moralizing Versus Economizing Numbers
  • Quantifying and Financializing: Accrual Accounting and Social Impact Bonds
  • Private Sector Accrual Accounting
  • Social Impact Bonds
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 11 The Shifting Legitimacies of Price Measurements: Official Statistics and the Quantification of Pwofitasyon in the 2009 Social Struggle in Guadeloupe
  • The Quantification of Pwofitasyon in the 2009 Battles for Power
  • Quantification as a Mode of Action for a Variety of Players
  • The Role of Technicity and Expertise in the Negotiations
  • The Legitimacy of Price and Margin Measurements
  • The Absence of Prices and Margin Measurements Before 2009
  • The Quantification of Pwofitasyon: Innovation and Tests of Reality
  • An Expected but Socially and Politically Unacceptable Intervention by Public Statistics
  • Towards a New Articulation of Prices and Margins
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 12 "La donnée n'est pas un donné": Statistics, Quantification and Democratic Choice
  • Introduction: Towards Governance-Driven Quantification
  • Producing and Interpreting Data is a Collective Undertaking
  • Inventing and Deconstructing Unemployment as a Category: The Role of Quantification
  • The Invention of Unemployment: Comparing France, Germany and the UK
  • Governance-Driven Quantification as Inverted Statistics: Europe and the Reversal of the Pyramid
  • The Reversal of the Statistical Pyramid
  • A New Target for Employment Policies
  • Statistical Tables as Driving Forces
  • The Set of Indicators as Embedded Norms-Guidelines as Justificatory Covers.
  • 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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