Governance only became neoliberalism’s administrative form after converging with it

Evidence

Governance is not identical with or exclusive to neoliberalism; it was no part of the neoliberal imaginary set out by Milton Friedman or F. A. Hayek and had little place in neoliberal transformations in Latin America or South Asia in the 1970s and 1980s. However, as it matured and converged with neoliberalism, governance has become neoliberalism’s primary administrative form, the political modality through which it creates environments, structures constraints and incentives, and hence conducts subjects. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 232

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the common assumption that governance was always a neoliberal project — valuable for critiques that conflate the two. — connects to: French neoliberalism split into administrative and radical faces that mutually supported each other — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 301; Neoliberal governance fuses state and capital aims, swapping their traditional roles — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 294; Neoliberalism means capital seizes biopolitical governance from the state — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 263 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Governance analytically displaces the state as the center of rule #expands (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 238
• Neoliberalism is a reprogramming of liberal governmentality, not a reaction to capitalist crisis #expands (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 83
• Neoliberal governance fuses state and capital aims, swapping their traditional roles #complicates (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 294
• Neoliberalism means capital seizes biopolitical governance from the state #expands (0.80) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 263
• Governance as a noun signifies power detached from governing agents #expands (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 236
• Neoliberalism operates from a unified playbook despite surface variation #qualifies (0.70) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 917