- Title
- Three conceptions of the relationship between power and liberty
- Creator
- Dean, Mitchell
- Relation
- SAGE Handbook of Power p. 175-193
- Relation
- http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book230605#tabview=toc
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- The chapter outlines three different conceptions of the relationship between power and liberty found in social and political thought and uses them to illuminate distinctive rationales for contemporary public policy and styles of governing. The three conceptions include two orthodox ones: the inverse, quantitative conception; and the juridical conception. The third is derived from Michel Foucault's analytics of government and thus can be called a 'governmental' approach. The chapter essays or 'tests' these conceptions against two distinctive rationales and styles of government, which it calls 'neo-liberalism' and 'neo-paternalism', with which we commence: It concludes that the orthodox conceptions, by virtue of their normative understanding of the relationship and their use of coercion/consent binary, are of much less help than the 'governmental' conception in making intelligible how the practices of public policies operate in contemporary liberal democracies.
- Subject
- power; liberty; inverse quantitative conception; juridical conception; governmental approach
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923773
- Identifier
- uon:9817
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781412934008
- Language
- eng
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