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THE QUIET POWER OF INDICATORS
MEASURING GOVERNANCE, CORRUPTION, AND RULE OF LAW |
| By: |
Sally Engle Merry (Editor), Kevin E. Davis (Editor), Benedict Kingsbury (Editor) |
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| ISBN 10: |
1107075203 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781107075207 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
26 May, 2015 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Pages: |
374 |
| Description: |
This highly accessible book investigates the rankings that increasingly influence perceptions of countries' governance and civil rights. |
| Synopsis: |
Using a power-knowledge framework, this volume critically investigates how major global indicators of legal governance are produced, disseminated and used, and to what effect. Original case studies include Freedom House's Freedom in the World indicator, the Global Reporting Initiative's structure for measuring and reporting on corporate social responsibility, the World Justice Project's measurement of the rule of law, the World Bank's Doing Business index, the World Bank-supported Worldwide Governance Indicators, the World Bank's Country Performance Institutional Assessment (CPIA), and the Transparency International Corruption (Perceptions) index. Also examined is the use of performance indicators by the European Union for accession countries and by the US Millennium Challenge Corporation in allocating US aid funds. |
| Illustrations: |
8 b/w illus. 9 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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