Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance

Tero Erkkilä is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His previous publications include Government Transparency (2012) and Global University Rankings (2013), both published by Palgrave Macmillan. Ossi Piironen is Senior Researcher at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland. He has published in various peer reviewed journals and has several years of experience teaching in global governance and methodology of political science at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Theory: Rankings as Policy Instruments.- Chapter 3. Ideational Background of Global Knowledge Governance.- Chapter 4. Rise of Global Rankings and the Competitive Logic.- Chapter 5. Field Structuration and Fragmentation of Global Rankings.- Chapter 6. From Global to Local: Regional and City-Level Alternatives to Global Rankings.- Chapter 7. Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance.

“The core strength of this book lies in its broad historical analysis of how global rankings have evolved over time. … Overall this book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of global rankings for public management over time and of how higher education … . the way the authors present historical background afforded me a holistic view of how and why higher education has been associated with global rankings and competitiveness for more than a decade.” (Busra Kulakoglu, Educational Review, Vol. 74 (3), 2022)