The Politics of Numbers is the first major study of the social and political forces behind the nation's statistics. In more than a dozen essays, its editors and

This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rath

Begins with study of history of statistics, and shows how the evolution of modern statistics has been inextricably bound up with the knowledge and power of gove

This study explores the dynamic relationship between science, numbers and politics. What can scientific evidence realistically do in and for politics? The volum

At least 200,000-250,000 people died in the war in Bosnia. "There are three million child soldiers in Africa." "More than 650,000 civilians have been killed as