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Neoliberalism for the Common Good? Public Value Governance and the Downsizing of Democracy
Author(s) -
Dahl Adam,
Soss Joe
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/puar.12191
Subject(s) - neoliberalism (international relations) , public value , corporate governance , democracy , value (mathematics) , rationality , public administration , political science , power (physics) , political economy , sociology , law and economics , politics , economics , law , management , physics , quantum mechanics , machine learning , computer science
This article raises a set of cautions regarding public value governance along two dimensions. First, it questions the common claim that public value governance poses a direct challenge to the economistic logic of neoliberalism. Second, although public value is often presented as a democratizing agenda, leading works sidestep foundational questions of power and conflict and advance prescriptions that are at odds with important democratic values. Without attending to these problems, the public value concept risks producing a new variant of neoliberal rationality, extending and strengthening the de‐‐democratizing, market‐oriented project that its proponents seek to overturn .