Purpose The purpose of this paper is to synthesize insights from previous accounting,
performance measurement (PM) and accountability research into the rapidly emerging field …

A review of the literature on organizational rankings across management, sociology,
education, and law reveals three perspectives on these complex evaluations—rankings are …

The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex
Trafficking. By Sally Engle Merry. Chicago an ensuring that federal constitutional guarantees …

A major aim of this paper is to draw attention to the insidious manner in which the deficit
discourse and practices associated with neoliberal reform are de-or re-professionalising …

Students and the public routinely consult various published college rankings to assess the
quality of colleges and universities and easily compare different schools. However, many …

Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox,
who in this book use the example of highway building in South America to explore what …

The spread of the principles and techniques of financial accounting into new systems for
measuring, ranking, and auditing performance represents one of the most important and …

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Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state
education in itswelfare form? Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global …

Quantification and statistics have long served as instruments of governance and state
power. However, in recent decades new systems of measurement and rankings have …