Governance by indicators : global power through quantification and rankings / edited by Kevin Davis ... [et al.]. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. - xi, 491 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Law and global governance . - Law and global governance. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Global governance by indicators / Beyond supply and demand : a political-economic conceptual model / Taming and framing indicators : a legal reconstruction of the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) / The dynamism of indicators / Semiotics of indicators : the case of corporate human rights responsibility / Governmentalizing sovereignty : indexes of state fragility and the calculability of political order / Re-construction of private indicators for public purposes / Legal yardsticks : international financial institutions as diagnosticians and designers of the laws of nations / From diagnosing under-immunization to evaluating health care systems : immunization coverage indicators as a technology of global governance / Internally displaced population in Colombia : a case study on the domestic aspects of indicators as technologies of global governance / Problems of power in the design of indicators of safety and justice in the global south / Measuring human rights : UN indicators in critical perspective / The use of indicators to measure government responses to human trafficking / Fighting human trafficking or instituting authoritarian control? : the political co-optation of human rights protection in Belarus / Rights-based humanitarian indicators in post-earthquake Haiti / Impact investment indicators : a critical assessment / Accountability in the generation of governance indicators / Public regulation of global indicators / Kevin E. Davis, Benedict Kingsbury, and Sally Engle Merry -- Tim Büthe -- Armin von Bogdandy and Matthis Goldmann -- Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Saunder -- Ronen Shamir and Dana Weiss -- Nehal Bhuta -- Katharina Pistor -- Terence C. Halliday -- Angelina Fisher -- René Urueña -- Christopher Stone -- AnnJanette Rosga and Margaret L. Satterthwaite -- Anne T. Gallagher and Janie Chuang -- Marina Zaloznaya and John Hagan -- Margaret L. Satterthwaite -- Sarah Dadush -- Nikhil K. Dutta -- Sabino Cassese and Lorenzo Casini. Introduction:

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Political science--Methodology.
Political indicators.
Ranking and selection (Statistics)--Political aspects.
Politics, Practical--Statistical methods.

JA71.7 / .G68 2012

I5511 D29g

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