The notion of quality features prominently in contemporary discourse. Numerous ratings, rankings, metrics, auditing, accreditation, benchmarking, smileys, reviews, and international comparisons are all used regularly to capture quality.
This book paves the way in exploring the socio-political implications of evaluative statements, with a specific focus on the contribution of the concept of quality to these processes. Drawing on perspectives from the history of ideas, soc...
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Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2: A History of the Concept of Quality.- Chapter 3: Quality Perspectives.- Chapter 4: Quality Inscriptions: Their Makers ...
Sobre o autor
Peter Dahler-Larsen is Professor at the Department for Political Science at University of Copenhagen, where he is the leader of the Centre for Research on Evaluation, ...