Governance by Indicators

Kevin Davis is Beller Family Professor of Business Law at New York University's School of Law.Angelina Fisher is Programme Director at NYU's Institute for International Law and Business.Benedict Kingsbury is Murray and Ida Becker Professor of Law at New York University's School of Law.Sally Engle Merry is Professor of Anthropology, Law, and Society at New York University.

• 1. Governance by Indicators ; 2. The Dynamism of Indicators ; 3. Taming and Framing Indicators: A Legal Reconstruction of the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) ; 4. Problems of Power in the Design of Indicators of Safety and Justice in the Global South ; 5. Immunization Coverage Indicators: Technology of Public Health Governance ; 6. State Failure: The U.S. Fund for Peace Failed States Index ; 7. Corporations, Indicators, and Human Rights: A Material Semiotics View ; 8. Trends in Mission-Driven Funding: New Impact Indicators for a New Impact Industry ; 9. Legal Yardsticks: International Financial Institutions As Legal Diagnosticians and Remedial Agents ; 10. Measuring Human Rights: U.N. Indicators in Critical Perspective ; 11. Internally Displaced Population in Colombia: A Case Study on the Domestic Aspects of Indicators as Technologies of Global Governance ; 12. The Use of Indicators to Measure Government Responses to Human Trafficking ; 13. Fighting Human Trafficking or Instituting Authoritarian Control? The Political Cooptation of Human Rights Protection in Belarus ; 14. Rights-Based Humanitarian Indicators in Post-Earthquake Haiti ; 15. Accountability in the Generation of Governance Indicators ; 16. Beyond Supply and Demand: A Political-Economic Conceptual Model of Measurement Standards for Global Markets ; 17. Public Regulation of Global Indicators

A solid and timely inquiry into the growing significance of the indicators-as- governance business in world politics...if this book is an indication of the kind of research that will be published in the Oxford University Press's new book series on 'Law and Global Governance' (of which the book under review is the first volume), then we have a lot to look forward to.