GOVERNANCE BY INDICATORS

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.Book Features: Ground-breaking study of the use of rankings and indicators which play an often crucial role in the global allocation of funds and resources as a tool of good governance in international relations Draws on both empirical and theoretical analysis combining insights from law political science economics and anthropology Evaluates the effectiveness and reliability of indicators and their impact on policy decisions through the lenses of knowledge production and global governanceTable of Contents: Kevin Davis Benedict Kingsbury and Sally Merry: Governance by Indicators Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder: The Dynamism of Indicators Armin von Bogdandy and Matthias Goldmann: Taming and Framing Indicators: A Legal Reconstruction of the OECD''s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Christopher Stone: Problems of Power in the Design of Indicators of Safety and Justice in the Global South Angelina Fisher: Immunization Coverage Indicators: Technology of Public Health Governance Nehal Bhuta: State Failure: The U.S. Fund for Peace Failed States Index Ronen Shamir and Dana Weiss: Corporations Indicators and Human Rights: A Material Semiotics View Sarah Dadush: Trends in Mission-Driven Funding: New Impact Indicators for a New Impact Industry Terence C. Halliday: Legal Yardsticks: International Financial Institutions As Legal Diagnosticians and Remedial Agents AnnJanette Rosga and Margaret L. Satterthwaite: Measuring Human Rights: U.N. Indicators in Critical Perspective René Urueña: Internally Displaced Population in Colombia: A Case Study on the Domestic Aspects of Indicators as Technologies of Global Governance Anne Gallagher and Janie Chuang: The Use of Indicators to Measure Government Responses to Human Trafficking Marina Zaloznaya and John Hagan: Fighting Human Trafficking or Instituting Authoritarian Control? The Political Cooptation of Human Rights Protection in Belarus Margaret L. Satterthwaite: Rights-Based Humanitarian Indicators in Post-Earthquake Haiti Nikhil K. Dutta: Accountability in the Generation of Governance Indicators Tim Büthe: Beyond Supply and Demand: A Political-Economic Conceptual Model of Measurement Standards for Global Markets Sabino Cassese and Lorenzo Casini: Public Regulation of Global Indicators