Edited by Kevin Davis, Dr. Angelina Fisher, Benedict Kingsbury and Sally Engle Merry
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.
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 and 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 and Lorenzo Casini: Public Regulation Of Global Indicators
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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.
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