The Social Sciences of Quantification From Politics of Large Numbers

This book details how quantification can serve both as evidence and as an instrument of government, whether when dealing with statistics on employment, occupational health and economic governance, or when developing public management or target-driven poli

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Isabelle Bruno Florence Jany-Catrice Béatrice Touchelay Editors

The Social Sciences of Quantification From Politics of Large Numbers to Target-Driven Policies

Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences Volume 13

Series editor Shahid Rahman

Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning explores the links between Humanities and the Social Sciences, with theories including, decision and action theory as well as cognitive sciences, economy, sociology, law, logic, and philosophy of sciences. It’s two main ambitions are to develop a theoretical framework that will encourage and enable interaction between disciplines as well as to federate the Humanities and Social Sciences around their main contributions to public life: using informed debate, lucid decision-making and action based on reflection. The series welcomes research from the analytic and continental traditions, putting emphasis on four main focus areas: • • • •

Argumentation models and studies Communication, language and techniques of argumentation Reception of arguments, persuasion and the impact of power Diachronic transformations of argumentative practices

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Editors Isabelle Bruno CERAPS (UMR 8026) University Lille 2 Lille France

Béatrice Touchelay IRHIS (UMR 8529) University Lille 3 Villeneuve-d’Ascq France

Florence Jany-Catrice CLERSE (UMR 8019) University Lille 1 Villeneuve-d’Ascq France

ISSN 2214-9120 ISSN 2214-9139 (electronic) Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences ISBN 978-3-319-43999-0 ISBN 978-3-319-44000-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-44000-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016948621 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subj