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

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Other Authors:	Cooley, Alexander, 1972- (Editor), Snyder, Jack L. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Nation-state and globalization. International relations > Statistics > Political aspects. International economic relations > Statistics > Political aspects. World politics > 21st century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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: indexes of state fragility and state failure Nehal Bhuta; 5. 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.