EAN: 9783030782030

EXECUTIVE POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE THE NEW POL...

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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