The use of indicators as a technique of global governance is increasing rapidly. Major examples include the World Bank's Doing Business Indicators, the World Bank's Good Governance and Rule of Law indicators, the Millennium Development Goals, and the indicators produced by Transparency International. Human rights indicators are being developed in the UN and regional and advocacy organizations. The burgeoning production and use of indicators has not, however, been accompanied by systematic comparative study of, or reflection on, the implications, possibilities, and pitfalls of this practice.
This book furthers the study of these issues by examining the production and history of indicators, as well as relationships between the producers, users, subjects, and audiences of indicators. It also explores the creation, use, and effects of indicators as forms of knowledge and as mechanisms of making and implementing decisions in global governance. Using insights from case studies, empirical work, and theoretical approaches from several disciplines, the book identifies legal, policy, and normative implications of the production and use of indicators as a tool of global governance.
Edited by:
Kevin Davis (Beller Family Professor of Business Law New York University School of Law),
Angelina Fisher (Programme Director,
NYU's Institute for International Law and Business),
Benedict Kingsbury (Murray and Ida Becker Professor of Law,
New York University School of Law),
Sally Engle Merry (Professor of Anthropology,
Law,
and Society,
New York University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 157mm,
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198747932
ISBN 10: 0198747934
Series: Law And Global Governance
Pages: 504
Publication Date: 21 May 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1: Kevin Davis, Benedict Kingsbury, and Sally Merry: Governance by Indicators 2: Wendy Nelson Espeland & Michael Sauder: The Dynamism of Indicators 3: Armin von Bogdandy & Matthias Goldmann: Taming and Framing Indicators: A Legal Reconstruction of the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 4: Christopher Stone: Problems of Power in the Design of Indicators of Safety and Justice in the Global South 5: Angelina Fisher: Immunization Coverage Indicators: Technology of Public Health Governance 6: Nehal Bhuta: State Failure: The U.S. Fund for Peace Failed States Index 7: Ronen Shamir & Dana Weiss: Corporations, Indicators, and Human Rights: A Material Semiotics View 8: Sarah Dadush: Trends in Mission-Driven Funding: New Impact Indicators for a New Impact Industry 9: Terence C. Halliday: Legal Yardsticks: International Financial Institutions As Legal Diagnosticians and Remedial Agents 10: AnnJanette Rosga & Margaret L. Satterthwaite: Measuring Human Rights: U.N. Indicators in Critical Perspective 11: René Urueña: Internally Displaced Population in Colombia: A Case Study on the Domestic Aspects of Indicators as Technologies of Global Governance 12: Anne Gallagher & Janie Chuang: The Use of Indicators to Measure Government Responses to Human Trafficking 13: Marina Zaloznaya & John Hagan: Fighting Human Trafficking or Instituting Authoritarian Control? The Political Cooptation of Human Rights Protection in Belarus 14: Margaret L. Satterthwaite: Rights-Based Humanitarian Indicators in Post-Earthquake Haiti 15: Nikhil K. Dutta: Accountability in the Generation of Governance Indicators 16: Tim Büthe: Beyond Supply and Demand: A Political-Economic Conceptual Model of Measurement Standards for Global Markets 17: Sabino Cassese & Lorenzo Casini: Public Regulation of Global Indicators
Kevin Davis is Beller Family Professor of Business Law at New York University's School of Law. Angelina Fisher is Programme Director at NYU's Institute for International Law and Business. Benedict Kingsbury is Murray and Ida Becker Professor of Law at New York University's School of Law. Sally Engle Merry is Professor of Anthropology, Law, and Society at New York University.
Reviews for Governance by Indicators: Global Power through Quantification and Rankings
A solid and timely inquiry into the growing significance of the indicators-as- governance business in world politics...if this book is an indication of the kind of research that will be published in the Oxford University Press's new book series on 'Law and Global Governance' (of which the book under review is the first volume), then we have a lot to look forward to. Tore Fougner, International Affairs ...this insightful volume aims to open up new avenues of thought and scholarship in international law and politics, comparative law and public and private global regulation. Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers
