2022
DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac015
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Abstract: Despite the multiplicity of actors, crises, and fields of action, global public policy has known one constant, that is, the ubiquity of indicators in the production of governing knowledge. This article theoretically engages with the phenomenon of hyper-quantification of global governance in the context of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), debated and introduced in 2015. Increasingly metrics—such as indicators and quantified data to monitor targets and goals—are no longer just tools of governance but… Show more

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“…Nevertheless, our findings point to another, more situated role of quantification-namely the ability to create fora for debate and consultation amongst multiple stakeholders. This 'new' role of numbers in this context was made possible by the acceptance of quantification as a governing paradigm (Tichenor et al, 2022), as best illustrated by the fact that, despite ranging views of SDGs themselves, none of our interviewees questioned the idea of measurement itself. One of the interviewees summarised this paradigm (attributed to Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education and Skills at the OECD): 'measuring the pig doesn't make it fatter, but at least it can tell us if it's overweight or underweight'.…”
Section: Brokering Global Public Policy: Boundary Work As Infrastruct...mentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Nevertheless, our findings point to another, more situated role of quantification-namely the ability to create fora for debate and consultation amongst multiple stakeholders. This 'new' role of numbers in this context was made possible by the acceptance of quantification as a governing paradigm (Tichenor et al, 2022), as best illustrated by the fact that, despite ranging views of SDGs themselves, none of our interviewees questioned the idea of measurement itself. One of the interviewees summarised this paradigm (attributed to Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education and Skills at the OECD): 'measuring the pig doesn't make it fatter, but at least it can tell us if it's overweight or underweight'.…”
Section: Brokering Global Public Policy: Boundary Work As Infrastruct...mentioning
confidence: 97%
“…At the same time, even though the concept of 'epistemic infrastructures' is becoming increasingly prevalent in global public policy literature (e.g., Bueger, 2015), it is often used in a vague and under-theorised way. Building on our use of the term elsewhere (Tichenor et al, 2022), this book aims to unpack this term by proposing a theorisation of an epistemic infrastructure of measurement within the SDGs as an interplay of three levels: the materialities of measurement, interlink-ages between actors and measures and finally new paradigms of doing global public policy.…”
Section: Quantification In Global Public Policy: From Governing By Nu...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The SDGs entail not only the extensive architecture of quantified measures but also-the system of connections and linkages that bring together the goals, targets, indicators and data into a complex web of relations, processes and practices (Tichenor et al, 2022). These linkages and interdependencies encapsulate a growing number of actors-from the UN agencies, member states to philanthropic and civil society organisations and academia.…”
Section: Infrastructures Of the Sdgsmentioning
confidence: 99%