Governance replaces justice and right with efficiency and efficacy.
Evidence
In public life, governance displaces liberal democratic-justice concerns with technical formulations of problems, questions of right with questions of efficiency, even questions of legality with those of efficacy. In the workplace, governance displaces the lateral solidarities of unions and worker consciousness and the politics of struggle with hierarchically organized “teams,” multiparty cooperation, individual responsibility, and antipolitics. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 253
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Governance by incentives and benchmarks replaces top-down law and rule — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 56; Governance replaces free subjects with managed, responsibilized ones — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 138; Governance displaces the rule of law with business instruments — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 137 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Governance displaces the rule of law with business instruments
#corroborates(0.90) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 137 - Economization and governance replace political contestation with managerial consensus.
#corroborates(0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 409 - Neoliberalism economizes justice, sovereignty, and the rule of law
#corroborates(0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 32 - Rights function as instruments of governance, not just limits on power
#expands(0.80) - Bureaucracy replaces general law with situational decrees.
#expands(0.80) - Citizens United turns neoliberal rationality into a constitutional hermeneutic governing law.
#exemplifies(0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 328 - Algorithmic governance is emerging in justice systems worldwide without clear oversight
#exemplifies(0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 447 - An appointed and uncorrectable earthly fate replaces the rule of law.
#corroborates(0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2694