The Quiet Power of Indicators: Measuring Governance, Corruption, and Rule of Law (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107427878 ISBN 13: 9781107427877

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This highly accessible book investigates the rankings that increasingly influence perceptions of countries' governance and civil rights.

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About the Authors

Sally Engle Merry is Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She is the author and editor of nine books, including the J. Willard Hurst Prize-winning Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law (2000). Her most recent book is Governance by Indicators (2012, co-edited with Kevin Davis, Angelina Fisher and Benedict Kingsbury).

Kevin E. Davis is Beller Family Professor of Business Law and Vice Dean at New York University School of Law. He has written extensively about anti-corruption law as well as the relationship between law and economic development in such journals as the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Law and Society Review, and the New York University Law Review.

Benedict Kingsbury is Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law and director of the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University School of Law. In addition to being co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law he is the editor and co-editor of over fifteen books, including International Financial Institutions and Global Legal Governance (2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107427878
• ISBN 13: 9781107427877
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 374
• Editor: Merry Sally Engle