Political Power beyond the State: Problematics of Government

Rose, Nikolas; Miller, Peter

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“…Vets have long sought to influence the development of policy and intervention with regard to animal disease, while successive governments have used vets as a means of developing and regulating agriculture. This mutually beneficial, co-constitutive relationship is characteristic of the forms of liberal government that were emerging in the mid-to late-nineteenth century in opposition to a totally administered society [14].…”

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The changing role of veterinary expertise in the food chain

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Donaldson

Lowe

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Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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This paper analyses how the changing governance of animal health has impacted upon veterinary expertise and its role in providing public health benefits. It argues that the social sciences can play an important role in understanding the nature of these changes, but also that their ideas and methods are, in part, responsible for them. The paper begins by examining how veterinary expertise came to be crucial to the regulation of the food chain in the twentieth century. The relationship between the veterinary profession and the state proved mutually beneficial, allowing the state to address the problems of animal health, and the veterinary profession to become identified as central to public health and food supply. However, this relationship has been gradually eroded by the application of neoliberal management techniques to the governance of animal health. This paper traces the impact of these techniques that have caused widespread unease within and beyond the veterinary profession about the consequences for its role in maintaining the public good of animal health. In conclusion, this paper suggests that the development of the social sciences in relation to animal health could contribute more helpfully to further changes in veterinary expertise.

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Section: The Governance Of Animal Health In the Food Chainmentioning

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The changing role of veterinary expertise in the food chain

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Donaldson

Lowe

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Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Currently, CHPs have found it difficult to do this, largely because of problems in measuring population health status and health-system change. Unlike most business organizations, which rely on traditional mechanisms of accountability, such as internal audits and income statements, to provide standard and institutionalized measures of effectiveness (Rose and Miller 1992;Power 1997), organizations whose mission it is to improve health must find tools that effectively measure changes in health status. Although progress is being made, no validated methods have yet emerged to measure health outcomes at the population level over the relevant time frames (Wolfson, Hourigan, and Johnson 1998), nor are there accepted definitions of population health status (Kindig 1998).…”

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The Governance and Management of Effective Community Health Partnerships: A Typology for Research, Policy, and Practice

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Community health partnerships (CHPs) are voluntary collaborations of diverse community organizations that have joined forces in order to pursue a shared interest in improving community health. Although these cross‐sectoral collaborations represent a way to address social determinants of health and disease in society, they suffer from governance and management problems associated with interorganizational relationships in general and health care challenges specifically. A typology of effective governance and management characteristics provides a systematic, theoretically based way of addressing dimensions of governance and management and serves as a guide in constructing, maintaining, and measuring successful partnerships. It offers a multidisciplinary perspective for classifying important organizational issues, identifying barriers to successful development and sustainability, and facilitating the attainment of goals.

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“…And these relatively localized programmes are themselves linked, often in rather tenuous and mediated ways, with more abstract political rationalities or (p. 20) ideas that seek to specify the principles that should guide the administering of lives and the responsibilities of rulers and the ruled: freedom, justice, equality, mutual responsibility, enterprise, efficiency, fairness, and so on. This is why Rose and Miller (1992) proposed a tripartite distinction between political rationalities, programmes, and technologies, and insisted on their mutual interrelations, even if this has at times been reduced to a binary distinction between programmes and technologies (cf. also Gordon, 1980a, and his tripartite distinction between strategies, programmes, and technologies).…”

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“…Drawing on Foucault, Clegg et al highlighted the importance of looking at small questions: 'It is in the little things of socially constructed normalcy that we see power in organizations being slowly constructed' (Clegg, Courpasson, & Phillips, 2006: 228). Taking up Foucault's conception of power, together with later work on governmentality (Foucault, ], 2007Gordon, 1980b;Miller & Rose, 1990;Rose & Miller, 1992), they emphasized the 'play of techniques, the mundane practices that shape everyday life', and how these shape and structure forms of conduct and selfhood (Clegg, Courpasson, & Phillips, 2006: 230).…”

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Michel Foucault and the Administering of Lives

Mennicken

Miller

2014

The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies

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and KeywordsThis chapter suggests that Michel Foucault is a nuisance for scholars of organizations, albeit a productive one. Foucault disavowed the study of organizations, yet his work was fundamentally concerned with the administering of lives, a central concern of scholars of organizations. The chapter explores this tension by examining four displacements that Foucault sought to effect: first, a move from asking 'why' type questions to 'how' type questions; second, a concern with subjectivity that discards the ethical polarization of subject and object in favour of an analysis of the historically varying ways in which the capacities and attributes of subjects are constituted; third, a focus on practices rather than organizations, and a concern to analyse sets or assemblages of practices in terms of how they emerge and how they are stabilized over time; fourth, a focus on rationalities in the plural. It then examines the 'Foucault effect' in organization studies.

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Political Power beyond the State: Problematics of Government

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