Official Statistics A Plaything Of Politics

Author : Reimund Mink
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031046247

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Official Statistics—A Plaything of Politics? by Reimund Mink Pdf

This book describes official statistics as a tool to hold up a mirror to society – but also as an instrument for those who can manipulate this mirror. It addresses the precarious interaction of politics, official statistics, and ethical principles. Three sets of themes can be derived from this relationship, which are the focus of this book: Political systems and guiding principles, official statistics as a science of the state, and ethical issues arising from them. Ultimately, the determining factor is the political system that exists in each case. The book contains eleven chapters. The first three focus on the key concepts of the book: power and morality, official statistics and policy making, and ethical principles for statistical work. Three further chapters focus on episodes that illustrate, as "drastic" examples, the misuse of official statistics over the past hundred years, covering the situation in the Soviet Union, the Third Reich and Greece. The remaining five chapters take up current topics that pose particular challenges to official statistics. These are the phenomena paraphrased by digitalisation, globalisation, happiness research, overpopulation, migration, the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change. The book is primarily aimed at statisticians working in national and international statistical institutions, but also at readers interested in statistics, national accounts, economic and statistics history, and ethical issues.

Author : REIMUND. MINK
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3031046250

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OFFICIAL STATISTICS-A PLAYTHING OF POLITICS? by REIMUND. MINK Pdf

Author : Cosmo Wyndham Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108811752

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Government Statistical Agencies and the Politics of Credibility by Cosmo Wyndham Howard Pdf

Who decides how official statistics are produced? Do politicians have control or are key decisions left to statisticians in independent statistical agencies? Interviews with statisticians in Australia, Canada, Sweden, the UK and the USA were conducted to get insider perspectives on the nature of decision making in government statistical administration. While the popular adage suggests there are 'lies, damned lies and statistics', this research shows that official statistics in liberal democracies are far from mistruths; they are consistently insulated from direct political interference. Yet, a range of subtle pressures and tensions exist that governments and statisticians must manage. The power over statistics is distributed differently in different countries, and this book explains why. Differences in decision-making powers across countries are the result of shifting pressures politicians and statisticians face to be credible, and the different national contexts that provide distinctive institutional settings for the production of government numbers.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UIUC:30112108518058

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The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords Pdf

Author : Georgina Sturge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0349128618

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Bad Data by Georgina Sturge Pdf

Not all statistics are created equal. Take a look behind the scenes and you'll discover that even most official data isn't the solid bedrock we think it is. It's patchy, inconsistent, full of guesswork and uncertainty - and it's playing an ever-bigger role in policy decisions. BAD DATA takes the reader on that behind-the-scenes journey, guided by House of Commons Library statistician Georgina Sturge. Revealing the secrets of a world that is usually closed off, it will show how governments of the past and present have been led astray by bad data and explain why it is so hard to count and measure things, and how we could better handle these problems. Discover how one Hungarian businessman's bright idea caused half a million people to go missing from UK migration statistics. Find out why it's possible for two politicians to disagree over whether poverty has gone up or down, using the same official numbers, and for both to be right at the same time. And hear about how policies like ID cards, super-casinos and stopping ex-convicts from reoffending failed to live up to their promise because they were based on shaky data.

Author : International Statistical Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Statistics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113598614

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Bulletin de L'Institut International de Statistique by International Statistical Institute Pdf

V. 1-5, v. 7-10 include "Bulletin bibliographique."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : India
ISBN : CORNELL:31924090163258

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Agriculture & Industry Survey by Anonim Pdf

Author : Columbia University. Faculty of Political Science
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015060405589

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Political Science Quarterly by Columbia University. Faculty of Political Science Pdf

A review devoted to the historical statistical and comparative study of politics, economics and public law.

Author : Nicholas Henry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317344995

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Public Administration and Public Affairs by Nicholas Henry Pdf

Updated in its 12th edition, Public Administration and Public Affairs shows readers how to govern efficiently, effectively, and responsibly in an age of political corruption and crises in public finance. With a continuing and corroding crisis occurring, as well as greater governance by nonprofit organizations and private contractors, it is vital that readers are given the skills and tools to lead in such an environment. Using easy-to-understand metaphors and an accessible writing style, Public Administration and Public Affairs shows its readers how to govern better, preparing them for a career in public administration.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015059385081

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The Journal of Political Economy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lawrence Goldman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192847744

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Victorians and Numbers by Lawrence Goldman Pdf

A defining feature of Victorian Britain was its fascination with statistics, and this study shows how data influenced every aspect of Victorian culture and thought, from the methods of natural science and the struggle against disease, to the development of social administration, and the arguments and conflicts between social classes.

Author : Ber Borochov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000675092

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Class Struggle and the Jewish Nation by Ber Borochov Pdf

This volume contains the first broad selection of essays made available in English by Ber Borochov, one of the leading intellectuals of the early Zionist movement. Borochov founded the Labor Zionist party in 1906, and was the pillar of the Israeli Labor party from whose ranks arose such figures as David Ben-Gurion and Itzhak Ben-Tsvi. He is best remembered for his ability to synthesize socialism and nationalism.Borochov argues that early Marxist theory failed to understand the causes of nationalism and views it only as a temporary phenomenon. Borochov tried to synthesize socialism with Jewish nationalism. Zionism was a movement necessary to free oppressed Eastern European Jews and permit them to further socialist ideals in their own nation-state. The dilemma is that socialist internationalism requires national culture to be of no further value once a socialist victory occurs in a country. Borochov's essays provide an important, if largely unknown perspective on these questions.

Author : Norval Morris,David J. Rothman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195118146

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The Oxford History of the Prison by Norval Morris,David J. Rothman Pdf

Ranging from ancient times to the present, a survey of the evolution of the prison explores its relationship to the history of Western criminal law and offers a look at the social world of prisoners over the centuries.

Author : Kevin Phillips
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101046326

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Bad Money by Kevin Phillips Pdf

In his acclaimed book American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the spiking cost (and growing scarcity) of oil- warnings that are proving to be frighteningly accurate. Now, in his most significant and timely book yet, Phillips takes the full measure of this crisis. They are a part of what he calls "bad money"- not just the depreciated dollar, but also the dangerous attitudes and the flawed products of wayward mega-finance. His devastating conclusion: In its hubris, the financial sector has hijacked the American economy and put our very global future at risk-and it may be too late to stop it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Industries
ISBN : NYPL:33433007509650

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The Business Chronicle of the Pacific Northwest by Anonim Pdf