Foucault, Public Finance, And Neoliberal Governmentality: A Critical Sociological Analysis

GÜRKAN ,CEYHUN

CEYHUN GÜRKAN

(Ankara Üniversitesi)

Yönetim ve Ekonomi: Celal Bayar Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi

Yıl: 2018Cilt: 25Sayı: 3ISSN: 1302-0064 / 2458-8253Sayfa Aralığı: 677 - 694Metin Dili: İngilizce

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Foucault, Public Finance, And Neoliberal Governmentality: A Critical Sociological Analysis

Abstract: 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.

Keywords:

Subject Area: 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

Foucault, Kamu Maliyesi ve Neoliberal Yönetimsellik: Eleştirel Sosyolojik Bir Analiz

Öz:Piyasa ekonomileri aralıklı olarak durgunluğa girdikçe mali sosyoloji kamu maliyesi, sosyoloji ve siyaset bilimi alanlarında çalışanların gözünde son otuz yılda gittikçe kabul görmeye başladı. 2008 küresel krizi ile birlikte, sadece ekonomiler için değil, aynı zamanda ülkeler arasında ve ülkelerin kendi içinde endişe verici bir eğilim olarak yükselen eşitsizliklerin ağır problemleri altında daha geniş planda toplumsal sistemler için de işler kötüleşti. Mali sosyoloji bilimsel alanı krizin karmaşık ve iç içe geçmiş nedenlerini, etkilerini ve ardıl gelişmelerini anlamaya çalışanlar tarafından potansiyeli yüksek bir araştırma programı olarak görülmektedir. Bu makale eleştirel mali sosyolojik yaklaşıma katkı sağlamayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda Fransız filozof ve tarihçi Michel Foucault ve ondan sonra gelişen yönetimsellik yazını gözden geçirilecektir. Çalışma kamu maliyesinin güncel durumunu ve krizini teoride ve pratikte daha geniş bir sosyolojik anlayış içinde kavrayabilen bir çerçeve çıkarmaktadır. Buna göre, neoliberal bağlamda kamu maliyesi makro düzeyde devlet politikalarını ve belirli bir kamusal örgütlenme tarzını biçimlendiren ve gündelik yaşamın mikro düzeyinde bireylerin davranışlarını yöneten, bunu piyasa mantığını mali ve oradan ekonomik olmayan sosyal alanlara yayacak biçimde gerçekleştiren inşa edici bir yönetimsel teknoloji olarak tanımlanmaktır.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Konu Alanı: SOCIAL > BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
SOCIAL > BUSINESS
SOCIAL > BUSINESS FINANCE
SOCIAL > ECONOMICS
SOCIAL > HISTORY
SOCIAL > HOSPITALITY LEISURE SPORT & TOURISM
SOCIAL > LAW
SOCIAL > MANAGEMENT
SOCIAL > POLITICAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL > PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
SOCIAL > PUBLIC RELATIONS
SOCIAL > WOMEN'S STUDIES

Belge Türü: DergiMakale Türü: Araştırma MakalesiErişim Formatı: Erişime Açık

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