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Quantifying law : legal indicator projects and the reproduction of neoliberal common sense
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Krever, Tor (2013) Quantifying law : legal indicator projects and the reproduction of neoliberal common sense. Third World Quarterly, 34 (1). pp. 131-150. doi:10.1080/01436597.2012.755014 ISSN 0143-6597.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2012.755014
Abstract
Development thinking in the past two decades has explicitly embraced law as an engine of development. This legal turn has been accompanied by a dramatic expansion of efforts to measure and quantify legal systems. Against claims that legal indicators are neutral, technical descriptions of the legal world, this article argues that legal indicators do not merely reflect legal reality; their construction and deployment are central to the continuing diffusion of neoliberalism as development common sense. The article considers the two most prominent projects to quantify law in the service of economic development—the World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicators and Doing Business indicators—and argues that these reproduce a narrow neoliberal conception of law as a platform for private business and entrepreneurial activity, and institutional support for a system of laissez faire markets.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance J Political Science > JC Political theory K Law [Moys] > KC International Law |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | World Bank, Neoliberalism , Developing countries -- Law and legislation | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Third World Quarterly | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 0143-6597 | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 February 2013 | ||||||
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Volume: | 34 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 131-150 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/01436597.2012.755014 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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