Governance by incentives and benchmarks replaces top-down law and rule

Evidence

As neoliberal rationality remakes the human being as human capital, an earlier rendering of homo oeconomicus as an interest maximizer gives way to a formulation of the subject as both a member of a firm and as itself a firm, and in both cases as appropriately conducted by the governance practices appropriate to firms. These practices, as Chapter 4 will explore in detail, substitute ever-evolving new management techniques for top-down rule in state, firm, and subject alike. Centralized authority, law, policing, rules, and quotas are replaced by networked, team-based, practice-oriented techniques emphasizing incentivization, guidelines, and benchmarks. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 56

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the managerial/benchmark-governance literature and to the erosion of law-based democratic rule. — connects to: Governance now leads with metrics to produce the practices rather than measuring established ones. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 601; Governance displaces the rule of law with business instruments — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 137; Governance replaces free subjects with managed, responsibilized ones — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 138 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Governance displaces the rule of law with business instruments #expands (0.90) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 137
• Neoliberal law and economics replaced rule-of-law with economic reason for judges #exemplifies (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 158
• Best practices exemplify neoliberal governance’s soft power and antipolitics #exemplifies (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 262
• Economization and governance replace political contestation with managerial consensus. #expands (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 409
• Governance analytically displaces the state as the center of rule #expands (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 238
• Ordoliberalism justifies replacing democratic governance with rules and the ECB #exemplifies (0.80) — Mark Blyth, Austerity, 377
• Governance replaces free subjects with managed, responsibilized ones #expands (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 138
• Governance replaces justice and right with efficiency and efficacy. #qualifies (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 253
• Economics has replaced politics as the governing science of the state #qualifies (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 154