The Political Geometry of Statistical Tables.
Democracy was a dangerously disordered form of politics, coming to power by overturning the organic foundations of America's traditional agrarian order. New sources of authority were consequently required for stabilizing this new style of self-government. Statistics were one such source, serving as...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Early Republic Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 445 - 475 |
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University of North Carolina Press
Fall2018
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=132634210&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 132634210 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 02751275 ERP jtl: Journal of the Early Republic issn: 02751275 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Fall2018 vid: 38 iid: 3 pid: 2027 pub: University of North Carolina Press artinfo: ui: 132634210 10.1353/jer.2018.0047 ppf: 445 ppct: 30 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 736KB tig: atl: The Political Geometry of Statistical Tables. aug: au: Zakim, Michael su: Statistical tables Democracy United States politics & government Statistics Liberalism United States census Shattuck, Lemuel United States sug: subj: United States Statistical tables Democracy United States politics & government Statistics Liberalism United States census Shattuck, Lemuel keyword: Lemuel Shattuck Thomas Hobbes U.S. Census ab: Democracy was a dangerously disordered form of politics, coming to power by overturning the organic foundations of America's traditional agrarian order. New sources of authority were consequently required for stabilizing this new style of self-government. Statistics were one such source, serving as a post-absolutist method for establishing objective truth, if not certainty. The fluid relations fixed by the statistics were displayed in the rows and columns of the "cross-table," whose strict geometries seemed to be anchored in self-organizing scientific laws independent of our making. In fact, the statistical table was a highly engineered event. Moving such immense quantities of information, and the enormous administrative effort required to generate that information, onto the printed page was an unequivocal sign of its man-made character, mobilizing a vast bureaucracy, taxonomic schemes, and a rich repertoire of visual effects. This artificial provenance of the table underscores the discursive character of modern objective truth while constituting a critical chapter in the production of modern liberalism. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of the Early Republic is the property of University of North Carolina Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of the Early Republic holder: University of North Carolina Press dt: @attributes: year: 2018 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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