The Quiet Power of Indicators: Measuring Governance, Corruption, and Rule of Law (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)
Cambridge University Press, 5/26/2015
EAN 9781107075207, ISBN10: 1107075203
Hardcover, 374 pages, 22.9 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
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.
Introduction
the local-global life of indicators
law, power and resistance Kevin Davis, Benedict Kingsbury and Sally Engle Merry
Part I. Global Indicators of Governance, Corruption, and Rule of Law
1. International organizations and the production of indicators
the case of freedom house Christopher G. Bradley
2. Indicators and the law
a case study of the rule of law index René Urueña
3. Measuring corporate accountability through global indicators Galit A. Sarfaty
4. The quest for measuring development
the role of the indicator bank MarÃÂa Angélica Prada Uribe
5. Qualitative and quantitative conditionality
accountability in the EU accession and MCC processes Nikhil Dutta
Part II. Indicators in Local Contexts
6. Rule of law indicators as a political technology of power in Romania Mihaela Serban
7. Indicators, global expertise, and a local political drama
producing and deploying corruption perception data in postsocialist Albania Smoki Musaraj
8. Evaluating the impact of corruption (perception) indicators on governance discourses in Kenya Migai Akech
9. Measuring labour market efficiency
indicators that fuel an ideological war and undermine social concern and trust in the South African regulatory process Debbie Collier and Paul Benjamin
Conclusion
contesting global indicators David Nelken.