Science Numbers And Politics
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Author | : Markus J. Prutsch |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 303011208X |
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This study explores the dynamic relationship between science, numbers and politics. What can scientific evidence realistically do in and for politics? The volume contributes to that debate by focusing on the role of “numbers” as a means by which knowledge is expressed and through which that knowledge can be transferred into the political realm. Based on the assumption that numbers are constantly being actively created, translated, and used, and that they need to be interpreted in their respective and particular contexts, it examines how numbers and quantifications are made ‘politically workable’, examining their production, their transition into the sphere of politics and their eventual use therein. Key questions that are addressed include: In what ways does scientific evidence affect political decision-making in the contemporary world? How and why did quantification come to play such an important role within democratic politics? What kind of work do scientific evidence and numbers do politically?
Author | : William Alonso |
Publisher | : Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 1987-09-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1610440021 |
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The Politics of Numbers is the first major study of the social and political forces behind the nation's statistics. In more than a dozen essays, its editors and authors look at the controversies and choices embodied in key decisions about how we count—in measuring the state of the economy, for example, or enumerating ethnic groups. They also examine the implications of an expanding system of official data collection, of new computer technology, and of the shift of information resources into the private sector. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Census Series
Author | : Alain Desrosières |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674009691 |
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Begins with study of history of statistics, and shows how the evolution of modern statistics has been inextricably bound up with the knowledge and power of governments.
Author | : Andrea Mennicken |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2021-10-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030782018 |
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This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple domains. It scrutinizes the power of numbers in terms of the changing relations between numbers and democracy, the politics of evidence, and dreams and schemes of bettering society. The book engages Foucault inspired studies of quantification and the economics of convention in a critical dialogue. In so doing, it provides a rich account of the plurality of possible ways in which numbers have come to govern, highlighting not only their disciplinary effects, but also the collective mobilization capacities quantification can offer. This book will be invaluable reading for academics and graduate students in a wide variety of disciplines, as well as policymakers interested in the opportunities and pitfalls of governance by numbers.
Author | : Steven Forde |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2013-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107041147 |
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The first book to explore the deep influence of modern science on Locke's moral and political philosophy.
Author | : Theodore M. Porter |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-08-18 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0691208417 |
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"A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification"--
Author | : Joshua Cole |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801437014 |
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French government officials have long been known among Europeans for the special attention they give to the state of their population. In the first half of the nineteenth century, as Paris doubled in size and twice suffered the convulsions of popular revolution, civic leaders looked with alarm at what they deemed a dangerous population explosion. After defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, however, the falling birthrate generated widespread fears of cultural and national decline. In response, legislators promoted larger families and the view that a well-regulated family life was essential for France.In this innovative work of cultural history, Joshua Cole examines the course of French thinking and policymaking on population issues from the 1780s until the outbreak of the Great War. During these decades increasingly sophisticated statistical methods for describing and analyzing such topics as fertility, family size, and longevity made new kinds of aggregate knowledge available to social scientists and government officials. Cole recounts how this information heavily influenced the outcome of debates over the scope and range of public welfare legislation. In particular, as the fear of depopulation grew, the state wielded statistical data to justify increasing intervention in family life and continued restrictions on the autonomy of women.
Author | : Andrea Mennicken |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2021-11-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9783030782009 |
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This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple domains. It scrutinizes the power of numbers in terms of the changing relations between numbers and democracy, the politics of evidence, and dreams and schemes of bettering society. The book engages Foucault inspired studies of quantification and the economics of convention in a critical dialogue. In so doing, it provides a rich account of the plurality of possible ways in which numbers have come to govern, highlighting not only their disciplinary effects, but also the collective mobilization capacities quantification can offer. This book will be invaluable reading for academics and graduate students in a wide variety of disciplines, as well as policymakers interested in the opportunities and pitfalls of governance by numbers.
Author | : Robert Fox |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2012-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421405229 |
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This debate, Fox argues, became a contest for the hearts and minds of the French citizenry.
Author | : Christopher Howard |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 022632768X |
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“A compelling case for transforming how research methods are taught to undergraduate students of political science.” —London School of Economics Review of Books Each year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books on research methods fail to highlight the most important concepts and questions. Instead, they brim with dry technical definitions and focus heavily on statistical analysis, slighting other valuable methods. This approach prevents students from mastering the skills they need to engage more directly and meaningfully with a wide variety of research. With wit and practical wisdom, Christopher Howard draws on more than a decade of experience teaching research methods to transform a typically dreary subject and teach budding political scientists the critical skills they need to read published research more effectively and produce better research of their own. The first part of the book is devoted to asking three fundamental questions in political science: What happened? Why? Who cares? In the second section, Howard demonstrates how to answer these questions by choosing an appropriate research design, selecting cases, and working with numbers and written documents as evidence. Drawing on examples from American and comparative politics, international relations, and public policy, Thinking Like a Political Scientist highlights the most common challenges that political scientists routinely face, and each chapter concludes with exercises so that students can practice dealing with those challenges.