This article explores how the World Bank’s engagement with governance reform has sparked a practice of measuring, ranking and diagnosing countries based on an epistemically constructed ideal-type of the modern state. With Foucault, I define this praxis of normalisation as a ‘transnational discipline of diagnosis’. The contribution of the article is both empirical and doctrinal. On an empirical level, it weaves together an innovative assemblage of three different technologies in the Bank’s epistemic governance praxis: the axiomatic dimension (World Development Reports); the statistical dimension (Worldwide Governance Indicators) and the diagnostic dimension (Systematic Country Diagnostics). On a doctrinal level, drawing on critical sociology and performativity theory, the article categorises this epistemic praxis as a world-making socio-political enterprise. It thereby rejects both the categorisation of epistemic power as a mode of public authority (to be integrated in a public law framework), as well as the respresentationalist idioms that inform ideology critique.

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国际组织和衡量国家的表现性

本文探讨了世界银行如何参与治理改革，从而引发了一种基于现代国家的认识论构建的理想类型对国家进行衡量、排名和诊断的实践。对于福柯，我将这种规范化实践定义为“跨国诊断学科”。这篇文章的贡献既是经验性的，也是理论性的。在经验层面上，它将世行认知治理实践中三种不同技术的创新组合编织在一起：公理维度（世界发展报告）；统计维度（Worldwide Governance Indicators）和诊断维度（Systematic Country Diagnostics）。在教义层面上，借鉴批判社会学和表演理论，这篇文章将这种认知实践归类为创造世界的社会政治事业。因此，它既拒绝将认知权力归类为一种公共权力模式（将整合到公法框架中），也拒绝为意识形态批判提供信息的再现主义习语。