The Use of Market Metaphors in Public Participation Discourse

Hindy Lauer Schachter

International Review of Public Administration, 1999, vol. 4, issue 2, 13-21

Abstract: The use of market metaphors in public participation discourse is analyzed with the focus on the reliance on business roles — i.e., customer, owner, investor and employee — to explain citizen-administrator relations. An argument is made that each of these metaphors distorts the nature of citizenship to some extent. Owner/investor metaphors are more appropriate nevertheless because of the meaning they confer on citizenship in relation to active/passive and individuals/community oriented dimensions and the use of voice or exit.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1080/12294659.1999.10804929

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