Official statistics constitute state administrative power rather than merely recording it

Evidence

From its inception, the collation of official statistics has been constitutive of state power and of many other modes of social organisation also. The co-ordinated administrative control achieved by modern governments is inseparable from the routine monitoring of “official data” in which all contemporary states engage. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 107

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the reader’s interest in institutional systems: statistics are an expert/institutional system that constitutes state authority — close to what gives Lord Darlington’s role its institutional weight. — connects to: Surveillance is administrative power, mostly indirect via information control — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 154; Statistics’ authority derived from studying deviance and mental states, not only measurement — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 604; The administrative cribbing of reports determined which event readings became evidence (+2 more)

Related

• Surveillance is administrative power, mostly indirect via information control (similarity 0.82)
• Statistics’ authority derived from studying deviance and mental states, not only measurement (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance is administrative power, mostly indirect via information control #corroborates (0.62) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 154
• The administrative cribbing of reports determined which event readings became evidence #expands (0.60)
• Statistics’ authority derived from studying deviance and mental states, not only measurement #expands (0.55) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 604