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020 $a9781107098138 (hardback)
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050 00 $aJZ1316$b.R36 2015
082 00 $a320.072$223
084 $aPOL011000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aRanking the world :$bgrading states as a tool of global governance /$cedited by Alexander Cooley and Jack Snyder.
263 $a1503
264 1 $aCambridge, United Kingdom :$bCambridge University Press,$c2015.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Over the last decade international rankings have emerged as a critical tool used by international actors engaged in global governance. State practices and performance are now judged by a number of high profile indexes, including assessments of their levels of corruption, quality of democracy, creditworthiness, media freedom, and business environment. However, these rankings always carry value judgments, methodological choices, and implicit political agendas. This volume expertly addresses the important analytical, normative and policy issues associated with the contemporary practice of 'grading states'. The chapters explore how rankings affect our perceptions about state performance, how states react to being ranked, why some rankings exert more global influence than others, and how states have come to strategize and respond to these public judgments. It also critically examines how treating state rankings like popular consumer choice indexes may actually lead policymakers to internalize questionable normative assumptions and lead to poorer, not improved, public policy outcomes"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"On May 7, 2012, on his first day as once again elected President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin declared that he would make economic modernization the goal of his administration, vowing to take Russia from its current position as 120th on the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business Index (DBI) to 50th by 2015. The remark was noteworthy for two reasons: First, the Russian President chose the DBI as an authoritative and credible outside judge of the endemic bureaucratic corruption and dismal investment conditions that still characterize the country"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine 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.
650 0 $aNation-state and globalization.
650 0 $aInternational relations$xStatistics$xPolitical aspects.
650 0 $aInternational economic relations$xStatistics$xPolitical aspects.
650 0 $aWorld politics$y21st century.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aCooley, Alexander,$d1972-$eeditor of compilation.
700 1 $aSnyder, Jack L.,$eeditor of compilation.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/98138/cover/9781107098138.jpg