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Governance by indicators global power through quantification and rankings

Title
Governance by indicators [electronic resource] : global power through quantification and rankings / edited by Kevin Davis ... [et al.].
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press [in association with] Institute for International Law and Justice, New York University School of Law, 2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Davis, Kevin E.
  • New York University. Institute for International Law and Justice.
Description
1 online resource (xi, 491 p.) : ill., maps.
Series Statement
Law and global governance
Uniform Title
  • Governance by indicators (Online)
  • Law and global governance.
Subject
  • Political science > Methodology
  • Political indicators
  • Ranking and selection (Statistics) > Political aspects
  • Politics, Practical > Statistical methods
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Introduction: Global governance by indicators / Kevin E. Davis, Benedict Kingsbury, and Sally Engle Merry -- Beyond supply and demand : a political-economic conceptual model / Tim Büthe -- Taming and framing indicators : a legal reconstruction of the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) / Armin von Bogdandy and Matthis Goldmann -- The dynamism of indicators / Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Saunder -- Semiotics of indicators : the case of corporate human rights responsibility / Ronen Shamir and Dana Weiss -- Governmentalizing sovereignty : indexes of state fragility and the calculability of political order / Nehal Bhuta -- Re-construction of private indicators for public purposes / Katharina Pistor -- Legal yardsticks : international financial institutions as diagnosticians and designers of the laws of nations / Terence C. Halliday -- From diagnosing under-immunization to evaluating health care systems : immunization coverage indicators as a technology of global governance / Angelina Fisher -- Internally displaced population in Colombia : a case study on the domestic aspects of indicators as technologies of global governance / René Urueña -- Problems of power in the design of indicators of safety and justice in the global south / Christopher Stone -- Measuring human rights : UN indicators in critical perspective / AnnJanette Rosga and Margaret L. Satterthwaite -- The use of indicators to measure government responses to human trafficking / Anne T. Gallagher and Janie Chuang -- Fighting human trafficking or instituting authoritarian control? : the political co-optation of human rights protection in Belarus / Marina Zaloznaya and John Hagan -- Rights-based humanitarian indicators in post-earthquake Haiti / Margaret L. Satterthwaite -- Impact investment indicators : a critical assessment / Sarah Dadush -- Accountability in the generation of governance indicators / Nikhil K. Dutta -- Public regulation of global indicators / Sabino Cassese and Lorenzo Casini.
LCCN
2012936927
OCLC
ssj0000737630
Title
Governance by indicators [electronic resource] : global power through quantification and rankings / edited by Kevin Davis ... [et al.].
Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press [in association with] Institute for International Law and Justice, New York University School of Law, 2012.
Series
Law and global governance
Law and global governance.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Davis, Kevin E.
New York University. Institute for International Law and Justice.
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