Governance displaces the rule of law with business instruments
Evidence
The rise of “governance,” the meshing of political and business lexicons through which neoliberal reason is disseminated; the antipathy of governance to politics; and the displacement of the rule of law with instruments of governance such as benchmarks, guidelines, buy-ins, and best practices. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 137
Categorization
- DEFINE: Brown’s definition of ‘governance’ as a meshing of political and business lexicons that displaces rule-of-law and politics.
- XREF: connects to: Neoliberal law and economics replaced rule-of-law with economic reason for judges — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 158; Governance by incentives and benchmarks replaces top-down law and rule — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 56; Governance analytically displaces the state as the center of rule — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 238 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Governance analytically displaces the state as the center of rule
#expands(0.82) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 238 - Governance vocabulary displaces the vocabulary of power from organized life.
#expands(0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 249 - Neoliberal governance fuses state and capital aims, swapping their traditional roles
#expands(0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 294 - Governance as a noun signifies power detached from governing agents
#expands(0.78) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 236 - Rule of law in economics restricts the state to purely formal legislation
#complicates(0.76) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 923 - Sovereignty produces a will to law rather than a rule of law
#qualifies(0.74) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 418 - Neoliberal property rights justify imposing governance structures for foreign investors.
#exemplifies(0.72) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 51