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Ranking the world :

1107098130

9781107098138

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Ranking the world :

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grading states as a tool of global governance /

edited by Alexander Cooley (Barnard College) and Jack Snyder (Columbia University).

xiii, 241 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-233) and index.

1. The emerging politics of international rankings and ratings: a framework for analysis -- 2. Just who put you in charge? We did: CRAs and the politics of ratings -- 3. Corruption rankings: constructing and contesting the global anti-corruption agenda -- 4. Measuring stateness, ranking political orders: indexes of state fragility and state failure -- 5. Lost in the gray zone: Competing measures of democracy in the former Soviet Republics -- 6. Winning the rankings game: the Republic of Georgia, USAID, and the Doing Business project -- 7. Conclusion. Rating the ratings craze: from consumer choice to public policy outcomes.

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"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"--

International economic relations-- Statistics-- Political aspects.

International relations-- Statistics-- Political aspects.

Nation-state and globalization.

World politics-- 21st century.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.

Cooley, Alexander,1972-

Snyder, Jack L.

20150523043400.0

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