Indicators of Democracy

The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico

Diana Graizbord (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

277 Seiten

2024 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3083-3 (ISBN)

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The spread of democracy across the Global South has taken many different forms, but certain features are consistent: implementing a system of elections and an overarching mission of serving the will and well-being of a country's citizens. But how do we hold politicians accountable for such a mission? How are we to understand the efficacy of the policies they put forth? In Indicators of Democracy Diana Graizbord exposes the complex, often-hidden world of the institutions that are meant to ensure democratic accountability and transparency. Taking the case of Mexico's National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL), Graizbord provides a deep theory of what happens when democratic aspirations intersect with technocratic ambitions. Analyzing what it takes to establish and sustain monitoring and evaluation as a form of official state expertise, Graizbord is able to put forward the contours of technodemocracy—a democratic political project that hinges on the power of experts to shape politics in unexpected but profound ways.

Diana Graizbord is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia.

List of Illustrations
Preface: An Ethnographer among Evaluators
Acknowledgments
Acronyms
Introduction
1. Institutionalizing Monitoring and Evaluation
2. Making Social Programs Evaluable
3. Cultivating Technodemocratic Expertise
4. The Desires and Difficulties of Demonstrating Impact
5. Engaging Risky and Replicating Publics
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.11.2024
Zusatzinfo	1 table, 3 figures, 9 halftones
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5036-3083-8 / 1503630838
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-3083-3 / 9781503630833
Zustand	Neuware