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Students and the public routinely consult various published college rankings to assess the quality of colleges and universities and easily compare different schools. However, many institutions have responded to the rankings in ways that benefit neith
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The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics ISBN: 0190848928
This chapter examines two contrasting versions of expertise. The first, tied to traditions of professional practice in theology, medicine, and law, relies on intuitions derived from generations of experience. Even when they articulate their knowledge
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190848927.013.12
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190848927.013.12
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Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 17:159-180
With a focus on legal and other organizational actors beyond the state, this article seeks to expand the theory of conditions under which legal occupations will mobilize to fight for basic legal freedoms within states. It elaborates the line of schol
Autor:
Arnald Puy, Roger A. Pielke, Andrea Saltelli, Andrew Stirling, Erica Charters, Isabelle Bruno, Ismael Rafols, Emmanuel Didier, Philip B. Stark, Erik S. Reinert, John E. Kay, Gabriele Bammer, Theodore M. Porter, Daniel Sarewitz, Jeroen P. van der Sluijs, Jerome R. Ravetz, Deborah G. Mayo, Monica Di Fiore, Samuele Lo Piano, Tommaso Portaluri, Wendy Nelson Espeland, Paolo Vineis
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Nature
Nature, Nature Publishing Group, 2020, 582 (7813), pp.482-484. ⟨10.1038/d41586-020-01812-9⟩
Nature, Nature Publishing Group, 2020, 582 (7813), pp.482-484. ⟨10.1038/d41586-020-01812-9⟩
Comment on mathematical modeling and uncertainty published in Nature. This comment has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement N0 792178 (A.P.).
Autor:
Wendy Nelson Espeland
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European Journal of Sociology. 60:523-527
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Annual Review of Sociology. 45:223-245
Calculation and quantification have been critical features of modern societies, closely linked to science, markets, and administration. In the past thirty years, the pace, purpose, and scope of quantification have greatly expanded, and there has been
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Controlling & Management Review. 63:14-19
Autor:
Vincent Yung, Wendy Nelson Espeland
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Social Science Information. 58:238-260
The ethical dimensions of quantification are seldom analysed. We examine three ethical features that are characteristic of quantification – its capacity to express or mediate power, focus attention, and shape opportunity structures. We do so in the
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Socio-Economic Review. 9:787-800
Autor:
Wendy Nelson Espeland, Michael Sauder
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Contexts. 8:16-21
In August it's the colleges, in April the graduate schools. The annual rankings of universities and their programs result in copies of U.S. News & World Report flying off the shelves, and great fanfare follows. Local news outlets report the lists and