Power of Rankings in Economics and Research Organizations

Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics

AvStephan Pühringer,Jens Maesse

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Del i serien Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

2 053 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning

Discourses around research excellence and quality are predominant within the economic sciences, with various forms of ranking playing a central role. They make “excellence” in research and teaching visible, but they also create hierarchical orders between researchers, institutions, publication outlets and countries.The authors of this volume analyse the role of rankings in shaping and transforming economics from different theoretical, methodological and disciplinary perspectives. The various contributions explore the specific situation in different countries as well as global developments within economics and beyond. In addition, the book contributes to an overall debate about the role and function of rankings in academia. The analysis focuses on four aspects: rankings and social hierarchies, rankings and paradigmatic hegemonies, rankings and regulations/policies, as well as rankings and critique/alternatives.The book addresses scholars in economic sociology, economics, higher education and science studies.The Open Access version of this book, available at www. taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-06
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
Antal sidor:250
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032637280

Utforska kategorier

Mer om författaren

Stephan Pühringer is a socio-economist and Deputy Head of the Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of Economy (ICAE) at the University of Linz, Austria, and is heading the Socio-Ecological- Transformation Lab there.Jens Maesse is Senior Researcher (PD Dr habil) in the Department of Sociology at the University of Giessen (Germany).Thierry Rossier is Senior Researcher at the Life Course and Inequality Centre (LIVES) of the University of Lausanne and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction 1. The power of rankings in economics and research organizations: an introduction Part I: Rankings and the formation of social hierarchies 2. Why are economists obsessed with rankings? An empirical and theoretical exploration of a field-specific preoccupation 3. Varieties of Truth Games: how economists produce different forms of true knowledge between ranking evaluations and political expertise 4.The Network Determinants of Publishing in Top 5 Journals. Evidence from the Swiss Field of Economics Professors (1991-2020) 5. Gendered Competitive Practices in Economics. A Multi-Layer Model of Women’s Underrepresentation PART II: Rankings and their impact on paradigmatic hegemony 6.On the relationship between society, metrification, and paradigmatic monism in economics 7. “Cream of the crop” A prosopographical analysis of the top 150 economists in the RePEc ranking 8. Rankings in relation to mathematical modeling and scientific understanding in economics PART III: Excellence policies and regulations through rankings: Critical Approaches 9. Evaluating research organisations: Public policy and the search for excellence in the trajectory of the Portuguese Science and Technology system 10. Organizers and promoters of academic competition? The role of (academic) social networks and platforms in the competitization of science 11. What are the disciplines of excellence?The case of the French Excellence Initiatives. 12. A Field Theory Approach to the Critical Study of Global University Rankings