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Ranking the world : grading states as a tool of global governance

Cooley, Alexander, 1972- editor of compilation, Snyder, Jack L., editor of compilation

Overview

\"Over the last decade international rankings have emerged as a critical tool used by international actors engaged in global governance. State practices and performance are now judged by a number of high profile indexes, including assessments of their levels of corruption, quality of democracy, creditworthiness, media freedom, and business environment. However, these rankings always carry value judgments, methodological choices, and implicit political agendas. This volume expertly addresses the important analytical, normative and policy issues associated with the contemporary practice of 'grading states'. The chapters explore how rankings affect our perceptions about state performance, how states react to being ranked, why some rankings exert more global influence than others, and how states have come to strategize and respond to these public judgments. It also critically examines how treating state rankings like popular consumer choice indexes may actually lead policymakers to internalize questionable normative assumptions and lead to poorer, not improved, public policy outcomes\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Nation-state and globalization. / International relations Statistics Political aspects. / International economic relations Statistics Political aspects. / World politics 21st century. / POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
• ISBN: 9781107098138, 1107098130

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
JZ1316.R36 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE