The Dynamism of Indicators

Governance by Indicators: Global Power through Quantification and Rankings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Espeland, Wendy Nelson ^a   Sauder, Michael ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamism; Heuristics; Higher educational institutions; Successful indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920426899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658244.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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