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The Triumph of Managerialism?

New Technologies of Government and their Implications for Value

Anna Yeatman editor Bogdan Costea editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield

Published:5th Oct '21

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This collection presents a critical dialogue on managerialist forms of government between philosophy, political thought, organisational and management theory. The volume brings together essays that are concerned with technologies of government that are articulated as different iterations of managerialism.

The hallmark of managerialist discourse is value, considered as a quantifiable abstraction, where the intention is to always ‘add value’. The central question addressed here by a team of international expert authors from across a range of disciplines is this: in what ways has this abstraction of value impacted on the substantive work and ethical integrity of government and the public sector, and, more broadly, of the professions (including that of management itself)? Has it displaced this work, or simply recast it? The volume addresses audiences in social sciences, philosophy, management, business, and organisational studies.

The Triumph of Managerialism is a most important and timely collection that addresses the complexities of managerialism considered as the ‘mode of governance of the entire system of relationships that is constituted by the synthesis of neoliberalism, capitalism, and technologism’. Wide-ranging historical and analytical perspectives provide a demanding, indeed indispensable decipherment and critique of this totalising system of world control. -- Richard Roberts, Visiting Emeritus Professor, University of Stirling

ISBN: 9781538158302

Dimensions: 216mm x 156mm x 21mm

Weight: 431g

282 pages