Acknowledgments

Funding underlying the research project behind this chapter has been provided by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (Project No. 627097) under the Open Research Area Scheme (Project Title: QUAD – Quantification, Administrative Capacity and Democracy). We would like to thank the collaborators in this project, particularly Arjen Boin, Alex Griffiths, Maarten Hillebrandt, Christian Huber, Michael Huber, Nathalie Iloga Balep, Daphne van Kleef, Andrea Mennicken, Fabian Muniesa and Peter Miller, for comments on an earlier version of the chapter. We would also like to thank the participants of the EGOS conference sub-stream “Thinking Infrastructures,” held in the summer of 2017 in Copenhagen, our colleagues from the Department of Management Accounting and Control at Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg as well as this edited volume’s editors for helping us develop our work.