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Title New Politics of Numbers : Utopia Evidence and Democracy
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Call No 320.0723 MEN
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Publisher Name Palgrave
Publishing Year 2022
Edition 1st
Pages 497
Price 0.00 PKR
Text Language English
Available Yes, Accessions:[ 51958 ]
Description 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 Fouca
Keywords Political structure processes; Public administration