Politicians Manipulating Statistics: How They Do It and How to Oppose Them

by Cristina Marinho and Michael Billig

Highly original and insightful, Billig and Marinho's book investigates how politicians misuse official statistics. Setting this problem in its historical context - and offering vivid case studies of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and G rald Darmanin - the authors demonstrate that the manipulation of statistics involves the misuse of words as well as the misuse of numbers. Most importantly, the authors show that politicians will manipulate official statisticians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009488139
• ISBN13: 9781009488136
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages