Intro
Preface
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Problem of Independence
1.1 Neoliberal Statistics?
1.2 Independent Authorities
1.3 Epistemic Communities
1.4 Politics and Policies
1.5 Plan of the Book
Chapter 2: The Legal Display of Independence
2.1 Models of Display: A General Overview
2.1.1 Locating Independence in a Subject
2.1.1.1 More than a Third of the OECDś NSOs (14 out of 36) Ascribe Independence or Autonomy to the NSO as a Body or an Organi...

2.1.1.2 A Few Statistical Acts Locate Independence in the Person of the Chief Statistician, While Being Quite Explicit as to H...
2.1.1.3 Several Statistical Acts Are Written So That Not Only Is the NSO Endowed with Independence, But So Is the Chief Officer
2.1.2 Attaching Independence to Products and Processes
2.1.3 Independence De Facto?
2.2 Empowering and Protecting the Chief Statistician
2.2.1 Professional Authority
2.2.2 Designating the Chief Statistician
2.2.3 Tenure and Dismissal
Chapter 3: The Organization of Institutional Independence
3.1 Locating the NSO

3.2 Coordination and Authority: The Statistical System
3.3 Advising, Governing, Monitoring: Statistical Councils
3.3.1 An Overview
3.3.2 A Closer Examination of Specific Cases
3.3.2.1 Belgium
3.3.2.2 Ireland
3.3.2.3 Portugal
3.3.2.4 France
3.3.2.5 Greece
Chapter 4: The Instruments of Professional Independence
4.1 Government Commitments
4.2 Pre-release Policies and Dissemination Calendars
4.3 Codes of Practice
4.4 Quality Frameworks
4.5 Peer Reviews, Self-Assessments, and the Epistemic Community as Watchdog
4.5.1 The ESS Peer Reviews

4.5.2 The IMF Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes
4.5.3 The OECD Assessments and Self-assessments
4.5.4 The Epistemic Community as Watchdog
Chapter 5: Patterns, Paths, and Processes: The Dissemination of Independence
5.1 The Index of Independence
5.2 Clusters and Patterns
5.2.1 Functional Groups
5.2.2 Historical-Geographical Groups
5.2.3 The Logic of Protection and Capacity
5.2.4 Convergence Between Dimensions
5.3 Paths, Processes, and Limits of Diffusion
5.3.1 Coercion
5.3.2 Learning
5.3.3 Common Norms

5.3.4 Competitive and Cooperative Interdependence
5.3.5 Taken-for-Grantedness
5.3.6 Symbolic Imitation
5.3.7 The Limits of Diffusion
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Expanding Independence?
6.1 Towards More Independence?
6.2 Independence Beyond the OECD
6.3 Coming Challenges
References
A. Legal, Official, and Semi-official Documents: International and Supranational Bodies
1. United Nations (UN)
2. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
3. European Institutions
4. International Monetary Fund (IMF)
5. International Statistical Institute (ISI)