TY - JOUR
T1 - Trapped in the Complexity Bowl?
T2 - Public Governance and the Liberal Art of Governing
AU - Triantafillou, Peter
N1 - Important note from the Publisher regarding the attached version of the article (embargoed until March 2021) “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Public Administration on 19 Sep 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01900692.2019.1668805.”
PY - 2020/10/25
Y1 - 2020/10/25
N2 - For some time, academics have been discussing possible alternatives to new public managementunder headings such as network governance, collaborative governance, new public governance or,simply, public governance. This article seeks to better understand and critically discuss the rationalitiesof government supporting public governance. It argues that public governance is informed bya specific liberal rationality of government that differs from both classical liberalism and neoliberalism.Moreover, the diagnosis of societal complexity and concern for democratic self-government under-pinning public governance may entail the neglect of structural social problems, such as economicinequality, and the disqualification of other relevant forms of public intervention
AB - For some time, academics have been discussing possible alternatives to new public managementunder headings such as network governance, collaborative governance, new public governance or,simply, public governance. This article seeks to better understand and critically discuss the rationalitiesof government supporting public governance. It argues that public governance is informed bya specific liberal rationality of government that differs from both classical liberalism and neoliberalism.Moreover, the diagnosis of societal complexity and concern for democratic self-government under-pinning public governance may entail the neglect of structural social problems, such as economicinequality, and the disqualification of other relevant forms of public intervention
KW - Complexity
KW - Governmentality
KW - Neoliberalism
KW - Public administration
KW - Self-governance
U2 - 10.1080/01900692.2019.1668805
DO - 10.1080/01900692.2019.1668805
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0190-0692
VL - 43
SP - 1228
EP - 1236
JO - International Journal of Public Administration
JF - International Journal of Public Administration
IS - 14
ER -