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Citizens’ contracts as a tricky steering medium

In: The Illusion of Management Control

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  • Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen

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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.

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  • Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, 2012. "Citizens’ contracts as a tricky steering medium," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Niels Thygesen (ed.), The Illusion of Management Control, chapter 4, pages 108-132, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-36539-1_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230365391_5
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