Governing economic life

“’ New visibilities should be created for all those involved in funding and delivering health care, with the aim of altering not only perceptions but decisions and ways of acting (Miller and Rose 1990 , Neu 2006 ).”

“While much has been written about the organizing power of knowing and tracking the population through numbers, thereby making them governable from a distance (Desrosiéres, 1998; Miller & Rose, 1990), we know less about the instability and partiality of digital infrastructural arrangements.”

“Indeed, the emergence of a neoliberal self is underpinned by indirect and subtle mechanisms such as discourses, expert knowledge, research and management techniques concerning ‘psychological features’ of the subject (Miller and Rose, 1990: 1–2).”

“Responsibilization is analysed here as part of neoliberal subjectification – the making of responsible subjects required and assumed by neoliberalism – which permits specific forms of neoliberal governance (Miller and Rose 1990; Shamir 2008; Langley 2007).”

“ECT’s use of the elevator pitch was relevant to communication literature that addressed the “entrepreneur of self” (e.g., du Gay, 1996; Holmer Nadesan & Trethewey, 2000; Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“This follows the methodology for an ‘“analytic” of problematics of government’ proposed by rose and miller (1992, p. 175) in that ‘it is in language that programmes of government are elaborated’ (miller & rose, 1990, p. 6) and that technologies for evaluation are integral parts of such programmes.”

“Instead, government is carried out indirectly, without the subject of that governance even necessarily being aware of it (Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“See Miller and Rose 1990; Burchell 1991; Gordon 1991, 2000; Rose and Miller 1992; Barry et al. 1996; Rose 1999; Dean 1999.”

“Economic liberalism also had political appeal for policy makers: the idea that the state should, could and would be less responsible for economic outcomes (Miller and Rose 1990; Rose 1993, 1996).”

“Networks and partnerships are considered crucial for non-and substate actors to align their goals and views with those held by the UNFCCC, drawing on neoliberal technologies of agency and performance (Miller and Rose 1990, 10).”

“The aim of liberal government is ‘thus to create the conditions in which the entrepreneurial opportunities for wealth, well-being, and security, seemingly afforded by the vital and uncertain processes of population, can be realized’ (Langley, 2014, pp. 22–23; see also Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“In other words, by “technologies of government” (Miller and Rose, 1990: 1), I highlight current early childhood assessment policies as an important aspect of the changing nature of educational governance or “governance turn” (Ozga et al., 2011: 85) that has taken place through the reliance on the…”

“These technologies better enable fisheries managers to “govern at a distance” (Latour 1987, Miller and Rose 1990) at minimal cost.”

“However, a proper analysis of the governing of the economy in liberal democracies, where citizens are not regularly subject to the explicit coercion of the state, requires ‘that policy should be located within a wider discursive field in which conceptions of the proper ends and means of government are articulated’.(4)…”

“Nonetheless, many non-Taylorised waged professionals are themselves subject to a range of governance technologies, which, in the absence of mechanisms for achieving formal and real subordination, seek to secure their responsible autonomy through projects intended to align their subjectivity with the goals of the firm…”

“In short, they make assumptions and values invisible, turn subjective perspectives and understandings into apparently objective truths, and determine some propositions to be self-evident and realistic while others are treated as impractical or with incredulity (Miller & Rose, 1993).”

“The ravelling of the wealth of nations in moral sentiments that was a motif in social science through the 19th century and into the 20th recurs in theories ranging from ‘social capital’ Journal of Sociology © 2004 The Australian Sociological Association, Volume 40(1): 5–20 DOI:10.1177/1440783304040450 www.sagepublicat…”

“This political or policy discourse constitutes an object – education, or whatever – in such a way that it can be governed (Miller & Rose, 1993, p. 79).”

“…the state fades from view: it both presides over these new ways of governing to give them authority (Donzelot, 1979), while still being prepared to intervene should they breakdown or function inadequately - constituting, as it were, a form of ’government at a distance’ (Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“…of neoliberalism a new governing mentality emerged and crystallised over time, and political discourse was transformed into ‘ the language of individual freedom, personal choice and self-ful fi lment ’ (Dean, 1995; Joseph, 2013; Miller & O ’ Leary, 1987; Miller & Rose, 1990, p. 24; Rose, 1993).”

“The governmentality of desired identities was in the apparatus of VW/Wolfsburg the result of a ‘diversity of regulatory mechanisms’ (Miller and Rose, 1990: 1) that shaped subjects whose conduct and aspirations promoted the economic prosperity of the entire apparatus.”

“‘ Government at a distance ’ (Miller & Rose, 1990, p. 9) is the motto here, and it gains social impact especially through normative pressure and imitation.”

“It commits us to assume that TDW does not simply materialize a steering hierarchy from ministry to school, with the former emerging as ‘center of calculation’ (Miller and Rose, 1990) and the latter as the periphery to be represented by the former.”

“Governmentality refers here to Foucault’s conceptions about the act of rule and the exercise of power by a ‘diversity of forces and groups that have, in heterogeneous ways, sought to regulate the lives of individuals’ (Miller and Rose 1990: 3).”

“…of government such as accounting are among the mechanisms “through which authorities of various sorts have sought to shape, normalise and instrumentalise the conduct, thought, decisions and aspirations of others in order to achieve the objectives they consider desirable” (Miller and Rose, 1990: 3).”

“In a modern state, governance is more about influencing the actions and self-understandings of others; it is “governing at distance” (Miller & Rose, 1990 ).”

“‘Citizenship is to be active and individualistic rather than passive and dependent’ (Miller and Rose 1990 , p.”

“That is, there is a focus upon the ‘how’ of governing conduct the use of what Miller and Rose might refer to as ‘intellectual technology’, and what might more generally be referred to as the technologies, ‘techné’ or tactics of government (Dean 1999; Foucault, 1991; Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“There are close links here to the Foucauldian ideas of “responsibilisation” as developed by Miller and Rose (1990), whereby citizens are increasingly bearing the onus of delivering on the state’s objectives.”

“Enterprising Selves and New Resistances Government at a distance explains how public policies infl uence behaviours (Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“The ability to strike a delicate balance between being visible and unverifiable makes it possible to ‘govern at a distance’ (Miller and Rose, 1990: 76), where the only course of ‘real’ actions needed by authorities are to issue regular compliance reminders and to fine-tune legislations and codes…”

“Studies of accounting change highlight that these themes associated with accounting always exists as a dialogue between the discursive and material, and between the ‘eternally opti-mistic’ (Miller & Rose, 1990) and ‘congenitally failing’ (Miller, 1998).”

“These are recognized as essential parts of governing at a distance, when “at a distance” simply means indirectly (Miller and Rose 1990).”

“Accounting numbers, due to their “mobile, stable and combinable” characteristics (Robson, 1992, p.685, emphasis in original) are capable of expediting “government at a distance” (Miller & Rose, 1990, p.9).”

“Power to influence another agent does not necessarily depend on the ability to control them, but may be based on attempts to influence either the environment in which they make decisions ( Miller and Rose, 1990 ) or the ways in which they are likely to understand and respond to that environment (Burchell, 1993).”

“When addressing governmentality , scholars often focused on Miller and Rose ’ s interpretation of the State and accounting as a tool to visualise, problematise and pursue governmental goals (see in particular Miller and Rose 1990; Rose and Miller, 1992).”

“In other words, ‘if political rationalities render reality into the domain of thought, “technologies of government” seek to translate thought into the domain of reality’ (Miller and Rose 1990, 8).”

“Enterprise is upon us, everywhere (Miller and Rose 1990; Du Gay 1991; Cooper 2017; Rose 2019, 446).”

“Indeed, it has informed many historical investigations on the role of accounting as a disciplinary tool to make individuals, groups and organisations visible, and thereby governable (Gomes et al., 2014; Miller and O’Leary, 1993; Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“We can see here the ways in which greenhouse governmentality is an essentially liberal form of government, characterized by what Miller and Rose call ‘‘attempts to transform the calculative procedures of economic actors’’ (Miller and Rose, 1990: 2).”

“This is a vast literature, but see, for representative examples, Allen and Pryke (1994), du Gay (1996, 1997), McFall (2004), Miller and Rose (1990), Mitchell (1998), Negus (1992), Nixon (1996) and Thrift (2001).”

“In order to explain the functioning of technologies of government, Latour’s (1987) concept of “action at a distance” is adopted and adapted (e.g. Miller P, 1990; Miller and Rose, 1990; Rose and Miller, 1992).”

“Taking up Foucault’s conception of power, together with later work on governmentality (Foucault, 1991 [1979], 2007; Gordon, 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…”

“This disciplinary power relies on a selfdisciplined subject such that ‘governing operates through subjects’ (Miller and Rose, 1990, p. 18) and which in the process results in discipline or government, i.e. an attempt to shape behaviour.”

“The two technologies of power elaborated below are in several ways equally ‘humble and mundane’ (Miller and Rose, 1990: 8), but they encompass ‘nonhuman’ technologies such as those immediately above and better befit what Rose more broadly calls ‘human technologies’: [A]n assemblage of forms of…”

“Stakeholders must therefore be more directly involved in risk prevention, particularly in terms of self-regulation ( Miller and Rose, 1990”