Standards and standardization as a social scientific problem

Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-17

  Higgins, Vaughan ^a   Larner, Wendy ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84996790679     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230289673     Document Type: Chapter

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