2015
DOI: 10.1017/s0260210515000340
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Governing the world at a distance: the practice of global benchmarking

Abstract: Abstract. Benchmarking practices have rapidly diffused throughout the globe in recent years. This can be traced to their popularity amongst non-state actors, such as civil society organisations and corporate actors, as well as states and international organisations (IOs). Benchmarks serve to both 'neutralise' and 'universalise' a range of overlapping normative values and agendas, including freedom of speech, democracy, human development, environmental protection, poverty alleviation, 'modern' statehood, and 'f… Show more

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“…Numerical indicators are intended to be – or are seemingly – ‘objective’ and ‘neutral’, generated by a scientific process. Yet they translate ‘what might otherwise be highly contentious normative agendas and converts them into formats that gain credibility through rhetorical claims to neutral and technocratic assessment’ (Broome and Quirk, ). But in the translation from words to numbers, choices made are based on assumptions derived from particular theories and values.…”
Section: How Global Goals Serve As a Policy Instrumentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Numerical indicators are intended to be – or are seemingly – ‘objective’ and ‘neutral’, generated by a scientific process. Yet they translate ‘what might otherwise be highly contentious normative agendas and converts them into formats that gain credibility through rhetorical claims to neutral and technocratic assessment’ (Broome and Quirk, ). But in the translation from words to numbers, choices made are based on assumptions derived from particular theories and values.…”
Section: How Global Goals Serve As a Policy Instrumentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Many traditional numerical indicators and methods of calculation struggle to provide accurate gauges of complex global economic chains. ‘Dodgy’ contestable data repeatedly blight international measurement and evaluation processes (Broome and Quirk, 2015b, p. 829). This raises the question of how governments, international organisations, civil society and even social scientists can and should respond.…”
Section: The Context and Case For Tax Spillovermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the first section of the paper, we draw on the insight that it is common for current international benchmarks to have normative underpinnings (Broome and Quirk, 2015a, 2015b; Broome et al., ). Accordingly, our framework is minimally normative.…”
Section: The Context and Case For Tax Spillovermentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In the world of economic policy, definitions of key terms play an integral role in translating abstract ideas into concrete practices (Broome and Quirk, ; Clegg, ). This proves to be particularly true in relation to the social spending floors in IMF lending arrangements.…”
Section: The Imf and Social Protection: The Ieo's Headline Findingsmentioning
confidence: 99%