Chaired by Prof. Philipp Lepenies, Department of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Prof. Eran Feitelson, Department of Geography and School of Public Policy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI)

This workshop discussed the role of indicators in politics and the politics of change and sustainable development. Various country examples have presented (with a specific weight placed on the processes of indicator selection, the resulting and surrounding political debates and conflicts especially regarding the importance of growth – next to methodological questions of indicators themselves) and as well as general research on the role played by indicators in politics. As research on the role played by indicators is a growing field but one underrepresented in political science, the desired workshop outcome was not only to connect ongoing international individual research, but to explore and highlight the manifold methodological and disciplinary possibilities that enable coming to grips with the role played by indicators in politics.