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https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/8147| Title: | Die Wiederherstellung des Marktsubjekts | English Title: | The remaking of the market subject | Contributor(s): | Le Gales, Patrick (author); Scott, Alan (author) |
Publication Date: | 2009 | DOI: | 10.1007/s11609-009-0055-6 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/8147 | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 19(1), p. 6-28 | Publisher: | VS Verlag fuer Sozialwissenschaften | Place of Publication: | Germany | ISSN: | 1862-2593 0863-1808 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160805 Social Change | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940299 Government and Politics not elsewhere classified | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | English Abstract: | The UK is generally considered a laboratory for styles of governance influenced by New Public Management: outsourcing, internal markets, targets, auditing. The shifts in governance style, and the new instruments that have accompanied them, were once synonymous with "Thatcherism" but have since been adopted and refined by New Labour. Early critical social scientific analyses deployed the Gramscian notion of hegemony to analyse this shift. This was followed by Foucault inspired analyses of "governmentality". The latter focused more explicitly on the micro-level of conduct. This article follows that lead, but seeks to address the central puzzles thrown up by this experiment through Max Weber's conception of a "bureaucratic revolution" and Karl Polanyi's analysis of the constitution of a "market subject" via a "double movement": a simultaneous loosening and tightening of control. The Weber-Polanyi approach allows us, we argue, to make the link more explicit between micro-level changes in the "conduct of life" (Lebensführung) and the meso-level instruments designed to bring about such a re-orientation of conduct. The article makes the case with reference to empirical material from a number of public services, notably education and health. Overall, the decisive factor is not a weakening of the state, but a change in its capacities and instruments. |
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