The Palgrave Handbook of Indicators in Global Governance

This volume brings together both academic and institutional perspectives to examine the production, use and contestation of indicators in global governance. It provides a unique and comprehensive guide to the latest research in the study of indicators and their use in global governance and policy making. The editors provide a guide to the recent vast body of literature and practice on measuring governance and measurement as governance at the global level, and present a state-of-the-art analysis of social science research on indicators at both the transnational and the global level. The Handbook brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, as well as policy-makers from international organisations and non-government organisations working in the field. This volume will be a valuable resource for students and academics in the fields of public policy, administration and management, international relations, political science, law, and globalisation, as well as policy makers and practitioners.

Debora Valentina Malito is A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research interests focus on critical studies of liberal intervention, state building and global governance.

Gaby Umbach is Founding Director of GlobalStat, the Database on Developments in a Globalised World, and Co-Director of research projects on measuring and indicators in global governance at the Global Governance Programme of the EUI’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Italy. She is Book Review Editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies.

Nehal Bhuta is Professor of Public International Law at the European University Institute, Italy. He is a member of the editorial boards of the European Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Criminal Justice, Constellations, and Humanity. He is also a Series Editor of The History and Theory of International Law.