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- ↑ Mennicken, Andrea, and Robert Salais. The new politics of numbers: Utopia, evidence and democracy. Springer Nature, 2022.
- ↑ Andrea Mennicken, and Robert Salais. The new politics of numbers: An introduction. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
- ↑ Robert Salais, "La donnée n’est pas un donné”: Statistics, Quantification and Democratic Choice. In The New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy, Andrea Mennicken and Rober Salais, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 379–415.
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- ↑ Peter Miller, "Afterword: quantifying, mediating and intervening: The R number and the politics of health in the twenty-first century." The New Politics of Numbers Utopia, Evidence and Democracy (2022): 465-476.
- ↑ Laurent Thévenot, "A new calculable global world in the making: governing through transnational certification standards." The New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy (2022): 197-252.
- ↑ Uwe Vormbusch, "Accounting for who we are and could be: Inventing taxonomies of the self in an age of uncertainty." The New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy (2022): 97-134.
- ↑ Boris Samuel, "The shifting legitimacies of price measurements: official statistics and the quantification of Pwofitasyon in the 2009 social struggle in Guadeloupe." The new politics of numbers: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy (2022): 337-377.
- ↑ Ota De Leonardis, "Quantifying Inequality: From Contentious Politics to the Dream of an Indifferent Power." The New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy (2022): 135-166.