Titlebook: Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance; Higher Education, In Tero Erkkilä,Ossi Piironen Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The A

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Field Structuration and Fragmentation of Global Rankings,e existing measurements as the figures that enter the field largely build on the existing ones without fundamentally challenging their ideational premises. This further embeds the use of numerical assessment in transnational governance.

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Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance,limits their relevance as tools of evaluation. Yet, their policy relevance remains high. Moreover, as indicator knowledge has become a universal language of transnational governance, it also limits what can be argued and presented as valid knowledge.

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Introduction, economic competitiveness and are increasingly measured by global rankings. We explore the dynamics of field development in global knowledge production, where new indicators emerge steadily. The book analyzes the evolution of global knowledge governance in prominent policy domains where rankings hav

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Rise of Global Rankings and the Competitive Logic,This chapter explores the rankings landscape as it was at the beginning of the 2000s, focusing on the most prominent “first generation” of measures of good governance, competition, and academic performance, characterized by aggregation of data and attempt for maximal geographical scope. It shows how

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Field Structuration and Fragmentation of Global Rankings,itiveness, innovation, and good governance that has challenged the established producers of numeric knowledge. Not only have the amount of international datasets multiplied, but the varieties of measurement—concerning conceptual and methodological decisions—have also increased. We find that the proc

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From Global to Local: Regional- and City-Level Alternatives to Global Rankings,ion of ranking comes in the form of regional and city rankings, challenging the dominant imaginary assuming global comparability of similar units or the state-centric understanding of world order. Nevertheless, conceptually or methodologically regional and local alternatives hardly depart from the g

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2662-4214 licies have become central aspects in national economic compHigher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings. The book analyses the evolution of indicator-based global knowledge governance, wher