Inverting democracy’s formula exposes self-regulation at governance’s core.

Evidence

Wendy Brown (1995) characterizes democracy as about governing together that we may govern ourselves. The (self-)regulation at the heart of governmentality is made obvious by inverting this neat formula: to govern ourselves so that we may govern together. That logic of (self-)regulation is already there, one might say and as Brown’s book makes clear, in governing per se. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 144

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lucid two-way formulation of governmentality/self-regulation.
• XREF: connects to: Economization displaces democratic self-rule and its supporting institutions. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 15

Related

• Economization displaces democratic self-rule and its supporting institutions. (similarity 0.81)
• Economizing the principle of popular rule can finally kill democracy. (similarity 0.79)
• Democracy is not self-sustaining and may need undemocratic supplements. (similarity 0.79)