The Ideology of New Public Management, Associational Representation and the Global Financial Crisis

This paper argues that the 2008 financial crisis accelerated a set of long-term dynamics which in turn have undermined two dominant models of state-society relations. On the one hand, the paper examines how the concept of social citizenship is based on a vision of state-society relations, which in recent years has been oriented by a philosophy of marketization of the state and of the relation between citizens and the state. On the other hand, it discusses an emerging emphasis on the role of organised civil society as a different and competing approach to state-society relations. Discussion will centre on how the interactions between these two ideologies and the related practices have impacted on conceptions of the modern state. Among the factors that affect this interaction are the impact of migration, the erosion of welfare states, and the redefined character of social vulnerability which now affect new groups of individuals. The paper considers all these changes as background phenomena which impact on relations between state and society in several ways, but particularly in terms of the meaning of social citizenship

本文认为，2008年金融危机加速了一系列长期动态，而这些动态反过来又削弱了国家与社会关系的两种主导模式。一方面，本文探讨社会公民权（social citizenship）概念如何基于一种国家与社会关系的愿景，而近年来该愿景受到国家市场化及公民与国家关系市场化理念的引导。另一方面，本文讨论了对有组织公民社会角色日益凸显的重视——这是一种与前者不同且具有竞争性的国家与社会关系路径。讨论将聚焦于这两种意识形态及相关实践之间的互动如何影响现代国家的概念。影响这一互动的因素包括移民的影响、福利国家的侵蚀，以及社会脆弱性特征的重新定义——后者如今正影响着新的群体。本文将所有这些变化视为背景现象，它们以多种方式影响国家与社会关系，尤其体现在社会公民权的内涵层面。