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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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: 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780198747932 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012936927 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB217253  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016034652  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political science--Methodology.<br/>Political indicators.<br/>Ranking and selection (Statistics)--Political aspects.<br/>Politics, Practical--Statistical methods.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JA71.7  / .G68 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>I5511 D29g