The World Of Indicators: The Making Of Governmental Knowledge Through Quantification

Indicators simplify complex issues and produce numeric evidence to guide and justify decision-making. However, we know little about the social processes constituting quantitative knowledge or its effects on public ordering practices. This book shows how technologies of quantification change our modes of knowing in subtle and often unrecognized ways.

• | Edited By: Richard (Martin Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Rottenburg
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 15, 2015
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 381 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1107450837
• | ISBN-13: 9781107450837