Governing By Numbers

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351789387

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Social science researchers have become increasing attentive to the role of numbers in contemporary life. Issues around big data, national test results, and output and performance statistics are now routinely reported and debated in the media. Numbers are a powerful resource for governments as a means to manage and ‘improve’ their populations, and we are increasingly represented, organized and driven by an economy of numbers, which inserts itself into more and more aspects of our lives. This book critically addresses some of the ways in which numbers are deployed in educational governance and practice, and some of the consequences of this deployment for what it means to be educated, to teach, and to learn. Recognising that numbers do not simply represent, but that they change things and have real effects, allows us to move beyond a system where difficult and important issues about what we want from education and from teachers are side-stepped in the push to ‘improve our numbers’. This collection offers a set of starting points from which we might speak back to numbers, drawing on research to explore how numbers change the way we think about ourselves and what we do. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education Policy.

Author : Edward Page
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781841132075

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Governing by Numbers is a jargon-free account of how delegated legislation - laws that do not pass through the full legislative scrutiny to which Acts of Parliament are subjected - is made. It is based on new research involving an analysis of nearly 30,000 pieces of delegated legislation; detailed investigation of 46 recent regulations based on in-depth interviews with those involved in developing, writing and scrutinising them and a major survey of nearly 400 interest groups. Delegated legislation is examined as a form of "everyday policy-making". It deals with important issues, from the level of welfare benefits to weapons exports, animal health and the prevention of air pollution, yet has been largely ignored in studies of the British political and administrative system. This book analyses the distinctive character of everyday policy making and the implications of how it works for our understanding of British democracy.

Author : George Szpiro
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691209081

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Numbers Rule by George Szpiro Pdf

The author takes the general reader on a tour of the mathematical puzzles and paradoxes inherent in voting systems, such as the Alabama Paradox, in which an increase in the number of seats in the Congress could actually lead to a reduced number of representatives for a state, and the Condorcet Paradox, which demonstrates that the winner of elections featuring more than two candidates does not necessarily reflect majority preferences. Szpiro takes a roughly chronological approach to the topic, traveling from ancient Greece to the present and, in addition to offering explanations of the various mathematical conundrums of elections and voting, also offers biographical details on the mathematicians and other thinkers who thought about them, including Plato, Pliny the Younger, Pierre Simon Laplace, Thomas Jefferson, John von Neumann, and Kenneth Arrow.

Author : Alain Supiot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509907748

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Governance by Numbers by Alain Supiot Pdf

In search of a machine of government -- The fortunes of an ideal: ruling by law -- Other perspectives on law -- The dream of social harmony by numbers -- The development of normative uses of quantification -- The law geared to numbers : from the gosplan to the total market -- Calculating the incalculable : the law and economics doctrine -- The encroachment of governance on law -- The limits of governance by numbers -- The withering-away of the state -- The return of "rule by men"--"Genuinely human work in humane conditions"--"Genuinely human work in humane conditions" -- The structure of ties of allegiance

Author : U. Kalpagam
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739189368

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Rule by Numbers by U. Kalpagam Pdf

This book examines aspects of the production of statistical knowledge as part of colonial governance in India using Foucault’s ideas of “governmentality.” The modern state is distinctive for its bureaucratic organization, official procedures, and accountability that in the colonial context of governing at a distance instituted a vast system of recordation bearing semblance to and yet differing markedly from the Victorian administrative state. The colonial rule of difference that shaped liberal governmentality introduced new categories of rule that were nested in the procedures and records and could be unraveled from the archive of colonial governance. Such an exercise is attempted here for certain key epistemic categories such as space, time, measurement, classification and causality that have enabled the constitution of modern knowledge and the social scientific discourses of “economy,” “society,” and “history.” The different chapters engage with how enumerative technologies of rule led to proliferating measurements and classifications as fields and objects came within the purview of modern governance rendering both statistical knowledge and also new ways of acting on objects and new discourses of governance and the nation. The postcolonial implications of colonial governmentality are examined with respect to both planning techniques for attainment of justice and the role of information in the constitution of neoliberal subjects.

Author : William Alonso,Paul Starr
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610440028

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The Politics of Numbers by William Alonso,Paul Starr Pdf

The Politics of Numbers is the first major study of the social and political forces behind the nation's statistics. In more than a dozen essays, its editors and authors look at the controversies and choices embodied in key decisions about how we count—in measuring the state of the economy, for example, or enumerating ethnic groups. They also examine the implications of an expanding system of official data collection, of new computer technology, and of the shift of information resources into the private sector. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Census Series

Author : Andrea Mennicken,Robert Salais
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030782016

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The New Politics of Numbers by Andrea Mennicken,Robert Salais Pdf

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.

Author : Ankush Agrawal,Vikas Kumar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108486729

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Numbers in India’s Periphery: Political Economy of Government Statistics by Ankush Agrawal,Vikas Kumar Pdf

An exciting account of how government statistics in developing countries are social artefacts dynamically shaped by political and economic contexts.

Author : Doctor Lorenzo Fioramonti
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780322704

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How Numbers Rule the World by Doctor Lorenzo Fioramonti Pdf

Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers? In How Numbers Rule the World, Lorenzo Fioramonti reveals the hidden agendas underpinning the use of statistics and those who control them. Most worryingly, he shows how numbers have been used as a means to reinforce the grip of markets on our social and political life, curtailing public participation and rational debate. An innovative and timely exposé of the politics, power and contestation of numbers.

Author : Markus J. Prutsch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030112080

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Science, Numbers and Politics by Markus J. Prutsch Pdf

This study explores the dynamic relationship between science, numbers and politics. What can scientific evidence realistically do in and for politics? The volume contributes to that debate by focusing on the role of “numbers” as a means by which knowledge is expressed and through which that knowledge can be transferred into the political realm. Based on the assumption that numbers are constantly being actively created, translated, and used, and that they need to be interpreted in their respective and particular contexts, it examines how numbers and quantifications are made ‘politically workable’, examining their production, their transition into the sphere of politics and their eventual use therein. Key questions that are addressed include: In what ways does scientific evidence affect political decision-making in the contemporary world? How and why did quantification come to play such an important role within democratic politics? What kind of work do scientific evidence and numbers do politically?

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Liberty
ISBN : OXFORD:590611329

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Two Treatises on Government by John Locke Pdf

Author : Edward C Page
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847310996

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Governing by Numbers by Edward C Page Pdf

Governing by Numbers is a jargon-free account of how delegated legislation - laws that do not pass through the full legislative scrutiny to which Acts of Parliament are subjected - is made. It is based on new research involving an analysis of nearly 30,000 pieces of delegated legislation; detailed investigation of 46 recent regulations based on in-depth interviews with those involved in developing, writing and scrutinising them and a major survey of nearly 400 interest groups. Delegated legislation is examined as a form of "everyday policy-making". It deals with important issues, from the level of welfare benefits to weapons exports, animal health and the prevention of air pollution, yet has been largely ignored in studies of the British political and administrative system. This book analyses the distinctive character of everyday policy making and the implications of how it works for our understanding of British democracy.

Author : Miriam Madsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031099960

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Governing by Numbers and Human Capital in Education Policy Beyond Neoliberalism by Miriam Madsen Pdf

This book addresses governing by numbers and human capital policy in higher education by asking how higher education is quantified, how the quantitative information is used in educational governance, and how the information is perceived by students, teachers, managers, and policymakers, and affects decision-making. It also thematically discusses how human capital theory affects the quantification practices and, thereby, their effects. Based on these analyses, the book asks whether governing by numbers and human capital in education policy are necessarily neoliberal practices, and thus questions the theory of global convergence in educational governance. The book provides a thorough analysis of the quantification of graduate outcomes based on the philosophical framework of Agential Realism, thus offering a novel analytical approach to the study of data and indicators in educational governance. The book draws on a comprehensive ethnographic case study from Danish higher education, and relates the findings from this case study to empirical cases in other countries and international research in the field. The book brings together literature from various fields, including political science, accounting, education, and sociology of quantification, in order to provide a comprehensive account of how quantification practices affect education.

Author : Theodore M. Porter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691210544

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Trust in Numbers by Theodore M. Porter Pdf

A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.

Author : Anthony G. Hopwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521469651

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Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice by Anthony G. Hopwood Pdf

Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice is the first major collection of critical and socio-historical analyses of accounting. It gathers together work by scholars of international renown on the social and institutional nature of accounting to address the conditions and consequences of accounting practice. Challenging conventional views that accounting is a technical practice, and that it comprises little more than bookkeeping, this collection demonstrates the importance of analysing the multiple arenas in which accounting emerges and operates. As accounting continues to gain in importance in so many spheres of social life, an understanding of the conditions and consequences of this calculative technology is vital. Its relevance extends far beyond the discipline of accounting. This book will be of considerable interest for specialists in organisational analysis, sociologists, and political scientists, as well as the general reader interested in understanding the increasing significance of accounting in contemporary society.