Taming of the shrill - from indicators to indicatorisation

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2014

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The term ‘indicatorisation’ captures features of a complex process that help reveal politics at play: for instance, the indicatorisation of the Right to Development (RTD) points out the attendant notion of neoliberalism as ‘development common sense.’ Part of the larger project “Global Administrative Law: Improving Inter-institutional Connections in Global and National Regulatory Governance” the paper acknowledges the importance of identifying and using suitable indicators to clarify the content of human rights standards and norms. In analysing this role, it asserts that key features of human rights indicators can make norm-generation in a human rights context a highly political process.

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GLOBAL, HUMAN RIGHTS, GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK, INDICATORS, STANDARDS, POLITICAL ASPECTS, DEVELOPMENT POLICY

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