Governance by Indicators Global Power through Quantification and Rankings

by Davis, Kevin; Fisher, Angelina; Kingsbury, Benedict; Engle Merry, Sally

• ISBN13: 9780198747932
• ISBN10: 0198747934
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-07-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Kevin Davis, Beller Family Professor of Business Law, New York University School of Law,Angelina Fisher, Programme Director, NYU's Institute for International Law and Business,Benedict Kingsbury, Murray and Ida Becker Professor of Law, New York University School of Law,Sally Engle Merry, Professor of Anthropology, Law, and Society, New York University

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.

Table of Contents

1. Governance by Indicators, Kevin Davis, Benedict Kingsbury, and Sally Merry
2. The Dynamism of Indicators, Wendy Nelson Espeland & Michael Sauder
3. Taming and Framing Indicators: A Legal Reconstruction of the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), Armin von Bogdandy & Matthias Goldmann
4. Problems of Power in the Design of Indicators of Safety and Justice in the Global South, Christopher Stone
5. Immunization Coverage Indicators: Technology of Public Health Governance, Angelina Fisher
6. State Failure: The U.S. Fund for Peace Failed States Index, Nehal Bhuta
7. Corporations, Indicators, and Human Rights: A Material Semiotics View, Ronen Shamir & Dana Weiss
8. Trends in Mission-Driven Funding: New Impact Indicators for a New Impact Industry, Sarah Dadush
9. Legal Yardsticks: International Financial Institutions As Legal Diagnosticians and Remedial Agents, Terence C. Halliday
10. Measuring Human Rights: U.N. Indicators in Critical Perspective, AnnJanette Rosga & Margaret L. Satterthwaite
11. Internally Displaced Population in Colombia: A Case Study on the Domestic Aspects of Indicators as Technologies of Global Governance, Rene Uruena
12. The Use of Indicators to Measure Government Responses to Human Trafficking, Anne Gallagher & Janie Chuang
13. Fighting Human Trafficking or Instituting Authoritarian Control? The Political Cooptation of Human Rights Protection in Belarus, Marina Zaloznaya & John Hagan
14. Rights-Based Humanitarian Indicators in Post-Earthquake Haiti, Margaret L. Satterthwaite
15. Accountability in the Generation of Governance Indicators, Nikhil K. Dutta
16. Beyond Supply and Demand: A Political-Economic Conceptual Model of Measurement Standards for Global Markets, Tim Buthe
17. Public Regulation of Global Indicators, Sabino Cassese & Lorenzo Casini