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Steven Sampson

Steven Sampson

Professor emeritus

Steven Sampson

The audit juggernaut : Comment on Audit Culture articles

Author

  • Steven Sampson

Summary, in English

Anthropologists studying audit culture focus on the success of rankings, ratings and indicators in constituting or reproducing discourses, a kind of audit juggernaut of power. But in fact, alot of these rankings have no impact at all. The short commentary, part of a group of papers on audit culture, rankings and indicators, compares the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index with the lesser known World Bank Governance Matters index. Anthropologists need to study why some audit discourses have no impact at all.

Department/s

  • Social Anthropology

Publishing year

2015-02-01

Language

English

Pages

80-82

Publication/Series

Social Anthropology

Volume

23

Issue

February

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Social Anthropology

Keywords

  • social anthropology
  • audit culture
  • anthropology of policy
  • corruption perception index
  • anticorruption

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0964-0282