The New Politics of Numbers: An Introduction

Andrea Mennicken and Robert Salais
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Andrea Mennicken: LSE - London School of Economics and Political Science
Robert Salais: IDHES - Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Économie et de la Société - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - UEVE - Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - ENS Paris Saclay - Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay

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Abstract: This chapter sets out what is ``new'' in the politics of numbers and this volume's approach to their study. Rather than asking what quantification is, this volume is interested in describing and analysing what quantification does, tracking and unpacking various quantification practices and their manifold consequences in different domains. The book revisits the power of numbers, and examines changing relations between numbers and democracy. It engages, for the first time, Foucault inspired studies of quantification and the economics of convention in a critical dialogue. In so doing, the volume seeks to account more systematically for the plurality of the possible ways in which numbers can come to govern, highlighting not only disciplinary effects but also the collective mobilization capacities quantification can offer.

Keywords: Democracy; Economics of convention; Foucault; Power; Quantification; sociologie; Utopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Published in Andrea Mennicken; Robert Salais. The New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy, Springer International Publishing, pp.1-42, 2022, Executive Politics and Governance, 978-3-030-78201-6. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-78201-6_1⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78201-6_1

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