- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 353 pages).
- Summary
- "Using a power-knowledge framework, this volume critically investigates how major global indicators of legal governance are produced, disseminated and used, and to what effect. Original case studies include Freedom House's Freedom in the World indicator, the Global Reporting Initiative's structure for measuring and reporting on corporate social responsibility, the World Justice Project's measurement of the rule of law, the World Bank's Doing Business index, the World Bank-supported Worldwide Governance Indicators, the World Bank's Country Performance Institutional Assessment (CPIA), and the Transparency International Corruption (Perceptions) index. Also examined is the use of performance indicators by the European Union for accession countries and by the US Millennium Challenge Corporation in allocating US aid funds"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in law and society
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in law and society.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the local-global life of indicators: law, power and resistance / Kevin Davis, Benedict Kingsbury and Sally Engle Merry -- Part I. Global indicators of governance, corruption, and rule of law. 1. International organizations and the production of indicators: the case of freedom house / Christopher G. Bradley ; 2. Indicators and the law: a case study of the rule of law index / René Urueña ; 3. Measuring corporate accountability through global indicators / Galit A. Sarfaty ; 4. The quest for measuring development: the role of the indicator bank / Maria Angelica Prada Uribe ; 5. Qualitative and quantitative conditionality: accountability in the EU accession and MCC processes / Nikhil Dutta -- Part II. Indicators in local contexts. 6. Rule of law indicators as a political technology of power in Romania / Mihaela Serban ; 7. Indicators, global expertise, and a local political drama: producing and deploying corruption perception data in postsocialist / Albania Smoki Musaraj ; 8. Evaluating the impact of corruption (perception) indicators on governance discourses in Kenya / Migai Akech ; 9. Measuring labour market efficiency: indicators that fuel an ideological war and undermine social concern and trust in the South African regulatory process / Debbie Collier and Paul Benjamin -- Conclusion: contesting global indicators / David Nelken.
- ISBN
- OCLC
- 911138328
- Title
The quiet power of indicators : measuring governance, corruption, and the rule of law / edited by Sally Engle Merry, Kevin E. Davis, Benedict Kingsbury.
- Publisher
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Cambridge studies in law and society
Cambridge studies in law and society.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of description
Print version record.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-2020, editor.
Davis, Kevin E., editor.
Kingsbury, Benedict, editor.
- Other Form:
Print version: Quiet power of indicators 9781107075207 (DLC) 2014049551 (OCoLC)898594445