Mandate governance techniques directly influenced neoliberal attempts to discipline sovereignty

Evidence

The mandates have been described as experimental laboratories for techniques of governance and rule. These experiments, I suggest, deeply influenced the neoliberal attempt to submit sovereignty to rules that support a flourishing market and to inculcate the morals of the market. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 89

Categorization

  • SEED: Angle: tracing ‘laboratories of governance’ from mandates to contemporary human-rights-based market-conditionality regimes.
  • XREF: connects to: Crisis lets neoliberal officials arrogate sovereign power to define emergencies — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 945; Mandate-system administrators directly shaped the postwar neoliberal movement — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 88; Neoliberal international order modeled supervision on the British Empire and mandates system — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 265 (+2 more)

Broader Connections