Parallel paper session

A: Administration and Performance indicators                  

Room D137, Chair: Svein Hammer / Jon Hovland

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Mediating and Translating Materialities of Governance - Performance Indicators as ‘Investments in New Forms’ of Governance?

Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent, Roland Bal, Christopher Pollitt, Stephen Harrison & George Dowswell

Health System Indicators as Boundary Objects: Statistics and the State in Canadian Healthcare

Ellen Balka

Technologies of governing and processes of self-governing - The use of statistics in the quality assessment of Norwegian schools

Sigrunn Tvedten & Svein Hammer

Quantitative basis for decision-making – boundary objects in the arena of Swedish road and railroad planning?

Karin Thoresson

Statistics and their relation to formalizing processes in social systems

Jon Hovland

B: Crime and statistics                                                          

Room D138, Chair: Heidi Mork Lomell

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How to convince with (non-) statistics.

Johanne Yttri Dahl

Governance or government? Two faces of criminal justice statistics in nineteenth century England and Wales

Chris A. Williams

Declining Crime Rates – Good News or Bad News?

Heidi Mork Lomell

In defence of Numbers

Ann R Sætnan

‘GIS in practice’ – Domestication of statistic at a police station

Helene Oppen Gundhus

C: Co-production of Statistics and general perspectives    

Room D139, Chair: Nadji Khefif

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Sociology in the making; The co-production of statistical sociology and society in context of a withdrawing modern episteme.

Christoffer Kullenberg, Göteborg

The statistical object in the digital age: Scientific classifications under disturbance

Christine Hanke

Uncertainty: how do experts and policy makers deal with it?

Annick de Vries

Statistics and the Baroque House

Nadji Aïssa Khefif

Comparability at the expense of sensitivity to national features? Standardization of social statistics in the EU.

Marja Alastalo