The New Politics of Numbers : Utopia, Evidence and Democracy

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 doma...

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Other Authors: Mennicken, Andrea (Editor), Salais, Robert (Editor)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Springer Nature 2022
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