Politics of Comparative Quantification, The Case of Governance Metrics

Tero Tatu Juhana Erkkilä, B. Guy Peters, Ossi Julius Piironen

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Numbers expose problems, help to institutionalize new domains of decision-making, and make complex issues commensurable, giving them a common form. Numbers play a role in the construction of social reality; they help to politicize issues, carry policy ideas from one context to another, and serve as backbones of decision-making in politics, administration and jurisprudence. On the other hand, numbers are associated with neutrality, science and expertise, concealing their political character. The present special issue explores the relation of politics and expert knowledge in methods that quantify attributes of governance in a comparative format.
Originalspråkengelska
TidskriftJournal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice
Volym18
Nummer4
Sidor (från-till)319-328
Antal sidor10
ISSN1387-6988
DOI
StatusPublicerad - 2016
MoE-publikationstypA1 Tidskriftsartikel-refererad

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Introduction to the Special Issue.

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