Citizens’ contracts as a tricky steering medium

Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen

Chapter 4 in The Illusion of Management Control, 2012, pp 108-132 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter I seek to analyse how the form of contract is reshaped to work as a public steering medium in relation to citizens. In private law a contract is defined as a voluntary agreement binding on individual freedom. Freedom and personal responsibility are presumed in private contracting. However, today’s public sector is making a misreading of private contracting in the logic of public steering, turning the causality upside down. Public contracting with individual citizens is seen as a technology for the making of individual freedom and responsibility, turning the single individual citizen into a partner of the state.

Keywords: Function System; Management Control; Public Administration; Performance Role; Individual Freedom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230365391_5

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