Titre :
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Comparative institutional response to economic policy managed competition and governmentality. (2001)
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Auteurs :
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Donald-W LIGHT ;
Symposium on Comparative Studies of Competition Policy.
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Social science and medicine (vol. 52, n° 8, 2001)
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Pagination :
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1151-1166
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Politique économique
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Politique santé
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Gouvernement
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Sociologie
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Système santé
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Economie santé
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Etude comparée
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Soins intégrés
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST FSMIR0xL. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. This article provides a comparative conceptual framework for understanding why so many governments found economic policies based on managed competition attractive and yet dangerous to implement. The framework conceptualizes governments as a kind of organizational complex and thus governments as an international population of organizations, each embedded in a state that tries to harness and direct behaviour through what Foucault called "governmentality". This nascent concept is made more robust here and joined with Fligstein's historical research on the response of leading organizations when fundamental change threatens a population of organizations by embracing a new conception of control that allows them to re-establish their control and pre-eminence. Fligstein studied corporations, but his model can he fruitfully extended to governments. Economic sociology has not to date been able to do much comparative research on institutional responses to economic policy ; but this set of case studies and conceptual framework provide such an opportunity.
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