@article{1452046,
      recid = {1452046},
      author = {Mink, Reimund,},
      title = {Official statistics-- a plaything of politics? : on the  interaction of politics, official statistics, and ethical  principles /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxxi, 374 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book describes official statistics as a tool to hold  up a mirror to society but also as an instrument for those  who can manipulate this mirror. It addresses the precarious  interaction of politics, official statistics, and ethical  principles. Three sets of themes can be derived from this  relationship, which are the focus of this book: Political  systems and guiding principles, official statistics as a  science of the state, and ethical issues arising from them.  Ultimately, the determining factor is the political system  that exists in each case. The book contains eleven  chapters. The first three focus on the key concepts of the  book: power and morality, official statistics and policy  making, and ethical principles for statistical work. Three  further chapters focus on episodes that illustrate, as  "drastic" examples, the misuse of official statistics over  the past hundred years, covering the situation in the  Soviet Union, the Third Reich and Greece. The remaining  five chapters take up current topics that pose particular  challenges to official statistics. These are the phenomena  paraphrased by digitalisation, globalisation, happiness  research, overpopulation, migration, the Covid-19 pandemic  and climate change. The book is primarily aimed at  statisticians working in national and international  statistical institutions, but also at readers interested in  statistics, national accounts, economic and statistics  history, and ethical issues.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1452046},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04624-7},
}