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Conventions for measuring and questioning policies: the case of 50 years of policy evaluations through a statistical survey
Konventionen für das Messen und die Prüfung von Policies: 50 Jahre Policy Evaluationen auf der Grundlage eines statistischen Surveys
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Abstract "Statistics are used to make critical judgments about society and fuel policy debates through different configurations that link together three components: a) the questioning of policy appropriateness and fairness; b) the categories and statistical tools used in evaluations; c) the economic, social ... mehr
"Statistics are used to make critical judgments about society and fuel policy debates through different configurations that link together three components: a) the questioning of policy appropriateness and fairness; b) the categories and statistical tools used in evaluations; c) the economic, social and political theories invoked in interpretations and explanations. Using convention theory and the sociology of engagements, the article offers a perspective view of how these configurations have changed over nearly half a century in France, based on a single statistical source. This approach to 'the politics of statistics' identifies four main configurations around four main measurements of human characteristics: social origin, occupational skills, human capital, migration history." (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
historische Entwicklung; Objektivität; soziale Herkunft; Migration; Diskriminierung; ethnische Struktur; soziale Klasse; Statistik; soziale Ungleichheit; Humankapital
Klassifikation
Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
Methode
deskriptive Studie; historisch
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2011
Seitenangabe
S. 192-217
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 36 (2011) 4
Heftthema
Conventions and institutions from a historical perspective / Konventionen und Institutionen in historischer Perspektive
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.36.2011.4.192-217
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)