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Science, Numbers and Politics Edited by Markus J. Prutsch Science, Numbers and Politics Markus J. Prutsch Editor Science, Numbers and Politics Editor Markus J. Prutsch Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Heidelberg, Germany ISBN 978-3-030-11207-3 ISBN 978-3-030-11208-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11208-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018966690 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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Cover credit: Maram_shutterstock.com This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland A cknowledgements This volume has been supported by the Academy College (WIN College) of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities with funding from the State of Baden-Württemberg (Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts). v c ontents 1 “Working Numbers”—Introductory Remarks 1 Markus J. Prutsch Part I Historical Genesis of the Relation Between Science, Numbers and Politics 2 Historical Genesis of the Relation Between Science, Numbers and Politics—Part I Introduction 21 Kelly L. Grotke and Stephen Hastings-King 3 “Lies, Damned Lies and State-istics”: Counting “Real Inhabitants” in the Census (Belgium, 1846–1947) 29 Kaat Louckx 4 “What Use Is It in the Long Run to Resist Something That Is Bound to Happen Anyway?” The Statistical Mind Settling in Nineteenth-Century Politics 57 Ida H. Stamhuis 5 Science, Numbers and Colonialism in the African Great Lakes, 1820–1910 85 Axel Utz vii viii CoNTENTS 6 The Emergence of a Global Economic Order: From Scientific Internationalism to Infrastructural Globalism 121 Anat Leibler Part II Science and Politics Today 7 Science and Politics Today—Part II Introduction 149 Kathrine von Graevenitz and Georg von Graevenitz 8 Politics and Policies of Statistical Independence 153 Jean-Guy Prévost 9 Measuring, Modeling, Controlling the Climate? Numerical Expertise in U.S. Climate Engineering Politics 181 Julia Schubert 10 What Counts in the Politics of Climate Change? Science, Scepticism and Emblematic Numbers 203 Amanda Machin and Alexander Ruser 11 Kings and Indicators: Options for Governing Without Numbers 227 Wolfgang Drechsler Part III European and International Education Policies 12 European and International Education Policies—Part III Introduction 265 Lars Lehmann and Markus J. Prutsch 13 Higher Purpose and Economic Reason: An Essay Concerning the Role of Numbers in European Education Policy 271 Jörg J. Dötsch CoNTENTS ix 14 Standardizing the Context and Contextualizing the Standard: Translating PISA into PISA-D 301 Radhika Gorur, Estrid Sørensen and Bryan Maddox 15 “Let’s Talk Numbers”: Parliamentary Research in Educational Affairs in Light of a Political Demand for Quantification—The Knesset in Comparative Perspective 331 Yuval Vurgan 16 Science, Numbers and Politics: Concluding Comments 365 Lars Lehmann and Markus J. Prutsch Index 377 l c ist of ontributors Jörg J. Dötsch Andrássy University Budapest, Budapest, Hungary Wolfgang Drechsler Ragnar Nurkse Department, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia; Davis Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Radhika Gorur Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Kelly L. Grotke Visiting Scholar, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Stephen Hastings-King Independent Researcher, Essex, MA, USA Lars Lehmann Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Heidelberg, Germany Anat Leibler Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Kaat Louckx Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Amanda Machin Faculty of Management and Economics, University of Witten-Herdecke, Witten, Germany Bryan Maddox University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Jean-Guy Prévost Département de science politique, Centre interuniver- sitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST), Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada xi xii LIST oF CoNTRIBUToRS Markus J. Prutsch Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Heidelberg, Germany Alexander Ruser Department of Sociology and Social Work, Agder University, Kristiansand, Norway Julia Schubert Department of Science Studies, Forum Internationale Wissenschaft, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany Estrid Sørensen Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany Ida H. Stamhuis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Axel Utz Independent Researcher, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Georg von Graevenitz Formerly European University Institute, Florence, Italy Kathrine von Graevenitz ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim, Germany Yuval Vurgan The Knesset Research and Information Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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