Chapter 1 “Working Numbers”—Introductory Remarks

Chapter 2 Historical Genesis of the Relation Between Science, Numbers and Politics—Part I Introduction

Chapter 3 “Lies, Damned Lies and State-istics”: Counting “Real Inhabitants” in the Census (Belgium, 1846–1947)

Chapter 4 “What Use Is It in the Long Run to Resist Something That Is Bound to Happen Anyway?” The Statistical Mind Settling in Nineteenth-Century Politics

Chapter 5 Science, Numbers and Colonialism Colonialism in the African Great Lakes African Great Lakes , 1820–1910

Chapter 6 The Emergence of a Global Economic Order: From Scientific Internationalism to Infrastructural Globalism

Chapter 7 Science and Politics Today—Part II Introduction

Chapter 8 Politics and Policies of Statistical Independence

Chapter 10 What Counts in the Politics of Climate Change? Science, Scepticism and Emblematic Numbers

Chapter 11 Kings and Indicators: Options for Governing Without Numbers

Chapter 12 European and International Education Policies—Part III Introduction

Chapter 13 Higher Purpose and Economic Reason: An Essay Concerning the Role of Numbers in European Education Policy

Chapter 14 Standardizing the Context and Contextualizing the Standard: Translating PISA into PISA-D

Chapter 15 “Let’s Talk Numbers”: Parliamentary Research in Educational Affairs in Light of a Political Demand for Quantification—The Knesset in Comparative Perspective

Chapter 16 Science, Numbers and Politics: Concluding Comments