Research project

Quantification, Administrative Capacity, and Democracy (QUAD)

The impact of quantification—policy making and administrative control are increasingly driven by calculations such as cost-benefit analyses, estimates of social and financial returns, measurements of performance and risk, benchmarking—on public service, citizenship, and democracy.

Contact

Arjen Boin

Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France)

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany)

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK)

Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO, Netherlands)

Partners

• Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom)
• Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation at Mines ParisTech (France)
• Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University (Germany)
• Department of Management Accounting and Control at Helmut-Schmidt University Hamburg (Germany)
• Institute of Political Science at Leiden University (Netherlands)

Further information can be found on the LSE Accounting website.