Counting Like a State

af Philip Rocco

An inside look at the 2020 Census that shows the importance of state and local cooperation in the complex federal project of census taking.The census plays a foundational, if all too easily ignored, role in the operation of the American state, shaping everything from congressional representation to the allocation of trillions of federal dollars. While census taking aspires to the high-modernist goal of "seeing like a state"-centralizing, standardizing, and homogenizing knowledge about a polity-i... (Læs mere)