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Governance by Numbers - The Making of a Legal Model of Allegiance (Paperback)
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Governance by Numbers - The Making of a Legal Model of Allegiance (Paperback)
Series: Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law
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The West's cherished dream of social harmony by numbers is today
disrupting all our familiar legal frameworks - the state, democracy
and law itself. Its scientistic vision shaped both Taylorism and
Soviet Planning, and today, with 'globalisation', it is flourishing
in the form of governance by numbers. Shunning the goal of
governing by just laws, and empowered by the information and
communication technologies, governance champions a new normative
ideal of attaining measurable objectives. Programmes supplant
legislation, and governance displaces government. However,
management by objectives revives forms of law typical of economic
vassalage. When a person is no longer protected by a law applying
equally to all, the only solution is to pledge allegiance to
someone stronger than oneself. Rule by law had already secured the
principle of impersonal power, but in taking this principle to
extremes, governance by numbers has paradoxically spawned a world
ruled by ties of allegiance.
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