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A Standard Fit for Neoliberalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2012

Peter Gibbon  and
Lasse Folke Henriksen
Peter Gibbon*
Affiliation:
Danish Institute for International Studies
Lasse Folke Henriksen*
Affiliation:
Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School
*
pgi@diis.dk
Corresponding author: Lasse Folke Henriksen (lfh.dbp@cbs.dk).
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Social scientists and historians writing on techniques of contemporary rule, particularly those influenced by post-Marxist paradigms such as governmentality, have become increasingly preoccupied by the expanding role of standardization and the subjection of an ever-expanding array of spheres of activity to inspection (or self-inspection), audit, and certification. In the course of their investigations, the elements of a common narrative are emerging. This links standardization, audit, and certification with neoliberalism and contraction of the state, on one hand, with a reconfiguration of everyday life in business, communication, and social provision on the other (see Power 1997; Brunsson and Jakobsen 2000; Strathern 2000; and Higgins and Larner 2010).

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 275 - 307
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Lamprecht, J. 2000. Quality and Power in the Supply Chain. Amsterdam: Elsevier.Google Scholar
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Levi-Faur, D. 2005. The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Capitalism. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 598, 1: 12–32.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mennicken, A. 2010. From Inspection to Auditing: Audit and Markets as Linked Ecologies. Accounting, Organization and Society 35: 334–59.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Stout, D. 1977. International Price Competitiveness, Non-Price Factors and Export Performance. London: National Economic Development Office.Google Scholar
Strathern, M., ed. 2000. Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Timmermans, S. and Berg, M.. 1997. Standardization in Action: Achieving Local Universality through Medical Protocols. Social Studies of Science 27: 273–305.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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United Kingdom Government. 1955. The Supply of Military Aircraft. Cmd. 9388. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
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United Kingdom Government. 1982. Standards, Quality and International Competitiveness. Cmd. 8621. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
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AIR 20/12692: Royal Air Force quality assurance policy, 1976–1980.Google Scholar
DEFE 72/8: Defence Quality Assurance Board I.Google Scholar
DEFE 72/9: Defence Quality Assurance Board II.Google Scholar
DEFE 72/85: Defence Quality Assurance Board Annual Conference, 1973.Google Scholar
DEFE 72/87: Defence Quality Assurance Board Annual Conference, 1975.Google Scholar
FG 5/89: National Economic Development Council, Automation and Instrumentation Sector Working Party, Quality Assurance Sub-Group, 1976–1980.Google Scholar
FV 6/9: Electronic Standards. Burghard Report.Google Scholar
FV 9/14–9/19: Inter-Departmental Committee on QA and Standards. Master series of papers.Google Scholar
T225/4792: Defence Department review of equipment inspection policy, Raby Committee, 1967–1969.Google Scholar
Agamben, G. 2009. What Is an Apparatus? Stanford: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar
Akerlof, G. 1970. The Market for Lemons: Qualitative Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism. Quarterly Journal of Economics 84: 488–500.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Amable, B. 2011. Morals and Politics in the Ideology of Neo-Liberalism. Socio-Economic Review 9: 3–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baldwin, R. 1970. Nontariff Distortions of International Trade. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institute.Google Scholar
Berg, M. 1997. Rationalizing Medical Work: Decision-Support Techniques and Medical Practices. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.Google Scholar
Berg, M. 1998. Order(s) and Disorder(s): Of Protocols and Medical Practices. In Berg, M. and Mol, A., eds., Difference in Medicine: Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies. Durham: Duke University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blanks, H. 1973. A Review of New Methods and Attitudes in Reliability Engineering. Microelectronics and Reliability 12: 310–39.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blyth, M. 2002. Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brunsson, N., Jacobsen, B., and associates. 2000. A World of Standards. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Callon, M. 1986. Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of Scallops and the Fishermen of St Brieuc Bay. In Law, J., ed., Power, Action and Belief: A New Sociology of Knowledge? London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Callon, M., Millo, Y., and Muniesa, F., eds. 2007. Market Devices. Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar
Campbell, J. and Pedersen, O. K., eds. 2001. The Rise of Neo-Liberalism and Institutional Analysis. Princeton: Princeton University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chwieroth, J. 2007. Testing and Measuring the Role of Ideas: The Case of Neoliberalism in the International Monetary Fund. International Studies Quarterly 51: 5–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chwieroth, J. 2010. Capital Ideas: The IMF and the Rise of Financial Liberalization. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Cimoli, M., Dosi, G., Nelson, R., and Stiglitz, J.. 2006. Institutions and Policies Shaping Industrial Development: An Introductory Note. Laboratory of Economics and Management Working Paper Series 2006/2, Universidad de Pisa. http://www.ebookbrowse.com/cimoli-dosi-nelson-stiglitz-institutions-and-policies-shaping-development-pdf-d76255637 (last accessed 11 Jan. 2012).Google Scholar
Coppola, A. 1984. Reliability Engineering of Electronic Equipment: A Historical Perspective. Institute of Electronic Engineers Transactions on Reliability 33, 1: 29–35.Google Scholar
Coutinho, J. 1964. Failure-Effect Analysis. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Division of Engineering. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 564–85.Google Scholar
Cronon, W. 1991. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton.Google Scholar
Daviron, B. 2002. Small Farm Production and the Standardization of Tropical Products. Journal of Agrarian Change 2, 2: 162–84.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dean, M. 1999. Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society. London: Sage.Google Scholar
Deleuze, G. 1992. ‘What Is a Dispositive?' In Armstrong, T. J., ed. and trans., Michel Foucault: Philosopher. New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Dunn, E. 2005. Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe. In Ong, A. and Collier, S., eds., Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems. Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar
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Foucault, M. 1980. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and other Writings, 1972–1977. Gordon, C., ed. New York: Harvester Press.Google Scholar
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Foucault, M. 1994. The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Vintage Books.Google Scholar
Foucault, M. 1998. The Will to Knowledge. London: Penguin Books.Google Scholar
Foucault, M. 2007. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France 1977–1978. Senellart, M., ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave.Google Scholar
Foucault, M. 2008. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France 1978–1979. Senellart, M., ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave.Google Scholar
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Grant, W. 1982. The Political Economy of Industrial Policy. London: Butterworth-Heinemann.Google Scholar
Hansard, . 1968. Debate of 25 June. 767, cc 69–70w. House of Commons Debates. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
Harvey, D. 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Higgins, V. and Larner, W.. 2010. Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing. London: Palgrave Macmillan.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Higgins, W. and Tamm Hallström, K.. 2007. Standardization, Globalization and Rationalities of Government. Organization 14, 5: 685–704.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hounshell, David A. 1984. From the American System to Mass Production, 1800–1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
International Electrotechnical Commission. n.d. Historical Background and Perspective (on Standards for Electrical Products). http://www.sourceiec.com/Chapter%201%20History.pdf (accessed 7 Feb. 2010).Google Scholar
James, S. 1986. The Central Policy Review Staff, 1970–1983. Political Studies 34, 3: 423–40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kast, F. and Rosenzweig, J.. 1962. Management in the Space Age: An Analysis of the Concept of Weapon Systems Management and Its Non-Military Applications. New York: Exposition Press.Google Scholar
Klein, J. 2000. Economics for a Client: The Case of Statistical Process Quality Control and Sequential Analysis. History of Political Economy 32 (supp. 1): 25–70.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lampland, M. and Star, S. L., eds. 2009. Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying and Formalizing Practices Shapes Everyday Life. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar
Lamprecht, J. 2000. Quality and Power in the Supply Chain. Amsterdam: Elsevier.Google Scholar
Larner, W. 2000. Neo-liberalism: Policy, Ideology, Governmentality. Studies in Political Economy 63: 5–25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Latour, B. 1988. The Pasteurization of France. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Levi-Faur, D. 2005. The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Capitalism. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 598, 1: 12–32.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mennicken, A. 2010. From Inspection to Auditing: Audit and Markets as Linked Ecologies. Accounting, Organization and Society 35: 334–59.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mirowski, P. and Plehve, D., eds. 2009. The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Murphy, C. and Yates, J.. 2011. ISO 26000, Alternative Standards, and the “Social Movement of Engineers” Involved with Standard-Setting. In Ponte, S., Gibbon, P., and Vestergaard, J., eds., Governing through Standards: Origins, Drivers and Limitations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 159–83.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nairn, T. 1964. The British Political Elite. New Left Review 23: 19–25.Google Scholar
National Audit Office. 1990. Department of Trade and Industry: Promotion of Quality and Standards. Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
Nicholls, T. 1986. The British Worker Question: A New Look at Workers and Productivity in Manufacturing. London: Routledge Kegan Paul.Google Scholar
Otsuki, T., Wilson, J. S., and Sewadeh, M.. 2001. Saving Two in a Billion: Quantifying the Trade Effect of European Food Safety Standards on African Exports. Food Policy 26, 5: 495–514.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Overbeek, H., ed. 1993. Restructuring Hegemony in the Global Political Economy: The Rise of Transnational Neoliberalism in the 1980. London: Routledge.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pemberton, H. 2004. Relative Decline and British Economic Policy in the 1960s. Historical Journal 47, 1: 989–1013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pollard, S. 1962. The Development of the British Economy, 1914–1950. London: Edward Arnold.Google Scholar
Power, M. 1994. The Audit Explosion. London: Demos.Google Scholar
Power, M. 1997. The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Power, M. 2007. Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rees, M. 1980. The Mathematical Sciences and World War II. American Mathematical Monthly 87, 8: 607–21.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ringe, A. and Rollings, N.. 2000. Responding to Relative Decline: The Creation of the National Economic Development Council. Economic History Review 53: 331–53.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rose, N. 1993. Government, Authority and Expertise in Advanced Liberalism. Economy and Society 22, 3: 282–300.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rose, N. 1996. Governing ‘Advanced’ Liberal Democracies. In Barry, A., Osborne, T., and Rose, N., eds., Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism and Rationalities of Government. London: University College of London Press, 37–65.Google Scholar
Rose, N. 1999. Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rose, N. and Miller, P.. 1992. Political Power beyond the State. British Journal of Sociology 43, 2: 173–205.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rose, N., O'Malley, P., and Valverde, M.. 2006. Governmentality. Annual Review of Law and Social Science 2: 83–104.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sampson, A. 1962. The Anatomy of Britain. London: Hodder & Stoughton.Google Scholar
Sapolsky, H. 1972. The Polaris System Development: Bureaucratic and Programmatic Success in Government. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sawyer, M. 1991. Industrial Policy. In Artis, M.. and Cobham, D., eds., Labour's Economic Policies, 1974–79. Manchester: Manchester University Press.Google Scholar
Shanks, M. 1961. The Stagnant Society: A Warning. Harmondsworth: Pelican Books.Google Scholar
Simmons, B., Dobbin, F., and Garrett, G.. 2006. Introduction: The International Diffusion of Liberalism. International Organisation 60: 781–810.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smith, R. 1990. Defence Procurement and Industrial Structure in the UK. International Journal of Industrial Organization 8: 185–205.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Snow, C. P. 1959. The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Stout, D. 1977. International Price Competitiveness, Non-Price Factors and Export Performance. London: National Economic Development Office.Google Scholar
Strathern, M., ed. 2000. Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Timmermans, S. and Berg, M.. 1997. Standardization in Action: Achieving Local Universality through Medical Protocols. Social Studies of Science 27: 273–305.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Timmermans, S. and Berg, M.. 2003. The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.Google Scholar
Tomlinson, J. 1990. Public Policy and the Economy since 1900. Oxford: Clarendon Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tomlinson, J. 2001. The Politics of Decline: Understanding Post-War Britain. Harlow: Longman.Google Scholar
United Kingdom Cabinet Office. 1982. The Impacts on Product Design of Standards, Regulation, Certification and Approvals. Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
United Kingdom Government. 1955. The Supply of Military Aircraft. Cmd. 9388. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
United Kingdom Government. 1971a. Report of a Committee on the Means of Authenticating the Quality of Engineering Products and Materials. Department of Trade and Industry. London: HMSO)Google Scholar
United Kingdom Government. 1971b. Government Organization for Defence Procurement and Civil Aerospace. Cmd. 4641. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
United Kingdom Government. 1982. Standards, Quality and International Competitiveness. Cmd. 8621. London: HMSO.Google Scholar