Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2012
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658244.003.0007
Abstract
This chapter studies the history of the first generation of indicators of governmental institutional quality. These (international) indicators include labels such as ‘bureaucratic efficiency’ and ‘rule of law.’ This discussion also addresses the argument that it is the reversal, and not the creation, of indicators designed to justify large-scale development policies by leading multilateral agencies that is problematic. This chapter emphasizes the importance of using alternative data sets and making raw data easily available, in order to challenge the present assumptions instead of merely aiming to validate them and the policy choices with which they are associated with.
Disciplines
International Law | Law | Organizations Law
Recommended Citation
Katharina Pistor,
Re-Construction of Private Indicators for Public Purposes,
Governance by Indicators: Global Power through Quantification and Rankings, Kevin Davis, Angelina Fisher, Benedict Kingsbury & Sally Engle Merry (Eds.), Oxford University Press
(2012).
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