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Failed Indicatorisation: Defining, Comparing and Quantifying Social Policy in the ILO's International Survey of Social Services of the Interwar Period
Gescheiterte Indikatorisierung: Definition, Vergleich und Quantifizierung von Sozialpolitik durch den International Survey of Social Services der Internationalen Arbeitsorganisation in der Zwischenkriegszeit
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Abstract Despite social policy being one of the most quantified policy fields today, there is no singular indicator or set of indicators of social policy quality or performance on the global level that is universally accepted and influential, comparable to GDP in the economy. The article analyses and explain... mehr
Despite social policy being one of the most quantified policy fields today, there is no singular indicator or set of indicators of social policy quality or performance on the global level that is universally accepted and influential, comparable to GDP in the economy. The article analyses and explains the unsuccessful indicatorisation in the ILO’s International Survey of Social Services of the interwar years. During this first elaborate study of social policies worldwide by an international organisation, difficult issues of defining, comparing, and quantifying social policy had to be solved for the first time. Theoretically, a sociology of knowledge approach on indicatorisation is utilised that highlights how social policy was questioned and evaluated. This illustrates the demanding work of comparing including a politicized knowledge production, identifying conditions and hindrances of defining and quantifying the 'social'. It is observed that different interests of participants, epistemic cultures, and practices, as well as bureaucratic procedures resulted in the mere inclusion of a provisional indicator of cost and little quantified data in the final Survey. Empirically, the article relies on an in-depth analysis of historical ILO documents.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Wissensproduktion; soziale Sicherung; Sozialleistung; Arbeitsorganisation; Indikatorenbildung; Quantifizierung; Sozialhilfe; Indikatorenforschung; Zeitschrift; Zwischenkriegszeit; Bürokratie; Fachliteratur; ILO; Grounded Theory; internationaler Vergleich; Sozialpolitik
Klassifikation
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Sozialpolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
International Survey of Social Services; sociology of quantification; comparison; knowledge politics; international bureaucracies; International Labour Organization
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 175-201
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 44 (2019) 2
Heftthema
Governing by Numbers - Key Indicators and the Politics of Expectations
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)