Foucault, Public Finance, And Neoliberal Governmentality: A Critical Sociological Analysis
Over the past three decades, fiscal sociology has increasingly gained traction amongscholars in the fields of public finance, sociology, and politics as the market economies plunged intorecession periodically. With the 2008 global crisis, things have turned worse not only for economiesbut also for the broader social systems under the severe problems of the rising inequalities as aworrisome trend between and within countries. Fiscal sociology scholarship is seen as a promisingresearch program by those who seek to understand complex and interrelated causes, effects andconsecutive developments of the crisis. This paper aims to make a contribution to the critical fiscalsociological approach. To that aim, French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault andcontemporary governmentality literature after Foucault will be reviewed. The paper constructs aframework for a broader sociological understanding of the current situation and crisis of publicfinance in theory and practice. Accordingly, public finance in the neoliberal context is described asa constructive governmental technology that carves out state policies and a type of publicorganization at the macro level and conducts the behaviors of individuals at the micro level ofeveryday life in a way to spread the market logic to the fiscal and, in turn, non-economic socialdomains.
Sosyal > Davranış Bilimleri
Sosyal > İş
Sosyal > İşletme Finans
Sosyal > İktisat
Sosyal > Tarih
Sosyal > Otelcilik, Konaklama, Spor ve Turizm
Sosyal > Hukuk
Sosyal > İşletme
Sosyal > Siyasi Bilimler
Sosyal > Kamu Yönetimi
Sosyal > Halkla İlişkiler
Sosyal > Kadın Araştırmaları