The Rise of Measurement-driven Governance: The Case of International Development
The Rise of Measurement-driven Governance: The Case of International Development
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DOI：
10.1163/19426720-02302003
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发表时间：
2017-04-01
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Best, Jacqueline
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作者：
Best, Jacqueline
全球治理越来越多地涉及衡量、排名和评分。本文以国际发展为例，通过考察衡量驱动型治理的兴起，我们可以对全球动态的近期变化有更多的了解。这篇文章涉及到最近关于新治理的学术研究，特别是关于更多实验主义治理形式的新兴文献。这项研究发现了一些证据，证明在国际发展中存在一种更具实验性的治理方式，但也表明，促进这些新的决策结构的具体衡量和问责技术在政治上远非中立。相反，它们是相当大的权力来源，在许多情况下，加强了现有的不对称，破坏了这些治理做法的审议潜力。
Global governance is increasingly about measuring, ranking, and scoring. Focusing on the case of international development, this article suggests that we can learn a great deal about the recent changes in global dynamics by examining the rise of measurement-driven governance. The article engages with the recent scholarship on new governance, particularly the emerging literature on more experimentalist forms of governance. This study finds some evidence of a more experimentalist kind of governance in international development, but suggests that the specific technologies of measurement and accountability through which these new structures of decisionmaking are being facilitated are far from politically neutral. They are instead sources of considerable power that, in many instances, reinforce existing asymmetries and undermine the deliberative potential of these governance practices.