Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability

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Multiple competitions in higher education: a conceptual approach (2019, background): “One such example is the in-depth study by Espeland and Sauder (2016) on the impact of rankings on law schools in the United States.”
Algorithms in practice: Comparing web journalism and criminal justice (2017, background): “From finance (Pasquale, 2015; Poon, 2009) to healthcare (Reich, 2012), education (Espeland and Sauder, 2016; Strathern, 2000; Zeide, 2016), journalism (Anderson, 2011a), human resources (O’Neil, 2016), and criminal justice (Harcourt, 2006), algorithms and analytics are playing an increasingly…”
Categories all the way down (2017, background): “Wendy Espeland and Michael Sauder’s recent study picks apart the structure and effects of the dominant US News and World Report ranking of Law Schools in the United States (Espeland and Sauder, 2016).”