In this special issue of Historical Social Research, indicators are considered epistemic
devices that render the world governable by quantification. While endowed with an aura of …

This article compares a variety of modes of quantifying individuals to govern them. The
analytical grid issues from a former research program on the Politics of Statistics that …

There is a pervasive sense in which we seem to be living under a new avalanche of
numbers, and in particular an avalanche of indicators beyond the state and purporting to …

A diversity of modes of quantification in contemporary societies have now been explored,
following the path of scholars who inspired this field, such as Alain Desrosières. This …

From the mid-19 th to the mid-20 th century, the various social sciences were gradually
quantified. This quantification was seen as a symbol of their accession to scientific status …

One of the most notable political developments of the last thirty years has been increasing
public and governmental demand for the quantification of social phenomena, yet …

» Die Soziologie der Quantifizierung-Perspektiven auf ein entstehendes Feld in den
Sozialwissenschaften «. The introductory article to this HSR Special Issue presents the …

Statistics are used to make critical judgments about society and fuel policy debates through
different configurations that link together three components: a) the questioning of policy …

In this article, we argue that number-making is a mode of imagining political futures–not only
futures that are probable but, crucially, futures that are desired. In this way, rather than …

Indicators with long social histories, such as the Consumer Price Index, often serve as nodes
of calculative infrastructures. They create a field of social action, making some relations …