Ranking the World

Herausgeber: Cooley, Alexander; Snyder, Jack

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the origins of the rise of international rankings, assessing their impact on global governance, and exploring how governments react to being ranked.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781107098138
• ISBN-10: 1107098130
• Artikelnr.: 41785903

Inhaltsangabe

1. The emerging politics of international rankings and ratings: a framework
for analysis Alexander Cooley; 2. Just who put you in charge? We did: CRAs
and the politics of ratings Rawi Abdelal and Mark Blyth; 3. Corruption
rankings: constructing and contesting the global anti-corruption agenda
Mlada Bukovansky; 4. Measuring stateness, ranking political orders: indices
of state fragility and state failure Nehal Bhuta; 5. Lost in the gray zone:
competing measures of democracy in the former Soviet republics Seva
Gunitsky; 6. Winning the rankings game: the Republic of Georgia, USAID, and
the Doing Business Project Sam Schueth; 7. Conclusion. Rating the ratings
craze: from consumer choice to public policy outcomes Jack Snyder and
Alexander Cooley.