State Calculations and the Political Promise of Replication

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI:10.1215/08992363-10742495

Diana Graizbord

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Abstract

Abstract This article examines how and to what effect the scientific ideal and practice of replication is adopted by a Mexican federal government agency charged with measuring poverty. The commitment to replication among state poverty experts is traced to their self-conception as democratic reformers working against cultures of state opacity associated with an authoritarian past. These experts deploy the ideal of replication as a bureaucratic ethos and the practice of replication as a public-facing and legitimating strategy. Replication successfully performs transparency and generates trust by appealing to, and strengthening ties with, elite academic and policy actors. Ultimately, the article shows how scientific ideals and practices adopted by state actors are cast as democracy enhancing even as they produce elite closure and limit public participation.

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国家计算和复制的政治承诺

本文考察了墨西哥联邦政府负责衡量贫困的机构是如何采用科学理想和复制实践的，以及产生了什么影响。国家贫困问题专家对复制的承诺可以追溯到他们的自我概念，即民主改革者反对与威权主义过去相关的国家不透明文化。这些专家将复制的理想作为一种官僚作风，将复制的实践作为一种面向公众和合法化的策略。通过吸引和加强与精英学术和政策参与者的联系，复制成功地实现了透明度，并产生了信任。最后，这篇文章展示了国家行为体采用的科学理想和实践是如何被塑造成促进民主的，即使它们导致精英封闭和限制公众参与。

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Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

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期刊介绍： Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU. A four-time CELJ award winner, Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks. Artists, activists, and scholars, both well-established and younger, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture.