The World of Indicators. The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification, Paperback

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.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Illustration(s): 3 Tables, black and white; 7 Halftones, unspecified
• Number of pages: 381
• Collection: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Publication date: 2015
• Dimensions: 156 x 229 x 24
• Cover type: Paperback / softback
• Editor(s): Johanna (Universitat Bern, Switzerland) Mugler