The New Politics of Numbers
Utopia, Evidence and Democracy
Andrea Mennicken editor Robert Salais editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Published:13th Oct '21
Should be back in stock very soon
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£34.99(9783030782030)
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 opportunitiesand pitfalls of governance by numbers.
ISBN: 9783030782009
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497 pages
1st ed. 2022