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oapen-20.500.12657-509492021-10-14T02:44:29Z 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 bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPH Political structure & processes bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & 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. 2021-10-13T13:52:55Z 2021-10-13T13:52:55Z 2022 book ONIX_20211013_9783030782016_17 9783030782016 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50949 eng Executive Politics and Governance application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-78201-6.pdf https://www.springer.com/9783030782016 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-78201-6 10.1007/978-3-030-78201-6 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 7ca21cb0-695a-4672-a4f0-88d71a11d2e0 9783030782016 Palgrave Macmillan 497 [grantnumber unknown] open access
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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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