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Wendy Nelson Espeland
Researcher at Northwestern University
Publications - 47
Citations - 6630
Wendy Nelson Espeland is an academic researcher from Northwestern University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Accountability. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 45 publications receiving 5671 citations. Previous affiliations of Wendy Nelson Espeland include International Sociological Association & Florida State University College of Arts and Sciences.
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Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for investigating the consequences, both intended and unintended, of public measures has been proposed, identifying two mechanisms, self-fulfilling prophecy and commensuration, that induce reactivity and then distinguishing patterns of effects produced by reactivity.
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Commensuration as a social process
TL;DR: This paper defined commensuration as the comparison of different entities according to a common metric, and discussed the cognitive and political stakes inherent in calling something incommensurable, and provided a framework for future empirical study of commensure and demonstrate how this analytic focus can inform established fields of sociological inquiry.
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The Discipline of Rankings: Tight Coupling and Organizational Change.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the value of Foucault's conception of discipline for understanding organizational responses to rankings using a case study of law schools, and explain why rankings have pe...
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A Sociology of Quantification
TL;DR: The authors analyzed quantification as a general sociological phenomenon and called for an ethics of numbers, drawing on scholarship across the social sciences in Europe and North America as well as humanistic inquiry.
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Accounting for Rationality: Double-Entry Bookkeeping and the Rhetoric of Economic Rationality
TL;DR: In this paper, the significance of double-entry bookkeeping can be understood as an attempt to convince some audience of the legitimacy of business ventures, and Goody's analysis of writing and literacy is applied to the development of accounting as a technique.