The organization of markets for collective concerns and their failures

Frankel, Christian; Ossandón, José; Pallesen, Trine

doi:10.1080/03085147.2019.1627791

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“…Whilst we support Frankel, Ossandón and Pallesen's (2019) call to study markets for collective concerns, we do not regard market features as a policy instrument in their own right. We suggest that policy instruments carry selected and adapted elements of markets to novel domains to ‘… programme the doing of a particular reality’ (Voß, 2016, p. 7), as illustrated by Dix (2014, 2016), Krafve (2014) and Neyland, Ehrenstein and Milyaeva (2019).…”

Section: Performing the Marketization Of The Nhsmentioning

confidence: 69%

“…A preexisting reality does not speak for itself, inevitably short-circuiting policy initiatives in advance. ' Frankel, Ossandón and Pallesen (2019) suggest that selective features of markets -such as competition or prices -have become policy instruments in their own right as marketization reforms spread. One example of selective marketization is provided by the quasi-market interventions carried out by successive UK governments (Le Grand, 1991Grand, , 2006.…”

Section: Performing the Marketization Of The Nhsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Implementing Marketization in Public Healthcare Systems: Performing Reform in the English National Health Service

Mason

Araújo²

2020

British J of Management

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To implement marketization in public healthcare systems, policymakers need to situate abstract models of prescriptive practice in complex user settings. Using a performativity lens, we show how policy processes attempt to bring about the changes they presume. Investigating the implementation of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, and the development of policy instruments and 'Clinical Commissioning Groups', we explicate the performance of a marketization programme. Our longitudinal study of the interactions amongst the multiple constituencies the Act attempted to enrol, and the existing sociotechnical arrangements the Act aimed to change, generates three contributions: (1) we characterize the performativity of policy instruments as a process of bricolage that incorporates the principled attitude of making do on both sides -those who design the policy and those who are charged to implement it; (2) we identify the mechanisms through which the performativity of an envisioned model of marketization operates at multiple scales within a complex and highly distributed system of provision; and (3) we document and explicate why specific performances result in misfires and unintended outcomes. In short, we conceptualize policy performativity as a non-linear, dynamic process where theories and their effects are constantly being assessed, reconfigured and fed back into policymaking and implementation.

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Section: Performing the Marketization Of The Nhsmentioning

confidence: 69%

Section: Performing the Marketization Of The Nhsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Implementing Marketization in Public Healthcare Systems: Performing Reform in the English National Health Service

Mason

Araújo²

2020

British J of Management

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“…As market designers and ‘choice architects’, they have helped to transform parts of economics into a ‘practice field’, one that engages in the active engineering of markets. From this perspective, the problem is information, a question of how markets can be designed in such a way that they are capable of processing ever-larger quantities of data, as well as ‘nudging’ deficient human subjects in accordance with their real preferences, and socially optimal outcomes, under conditions of incomplete knowledge (Frankel et al., 2019; Lash and Dragos, 2016; Nik-Khah and Mirowski, 2019).…”

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M/market frontiers

2020

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This theme issue originates from an invitational workshop on the spatiality and diversity of markets, convened at the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy in Montreal in 2017. Workshop participants, regardless of their disciplinary backgrounds and diverse research interests, shared a conviction that markets should be analysed in their plural and hybrid forms, as social and political constructs always 'in making'. In contrast to more orthodox conceptions of markets as free-standing entities, discrete institutions or ideal types, this was translated into an imperative to centre 'marketization', along with attendant processes of market re/construction. While this was interpreted as a positive research programme, if a challenging and quite radically open one, there was also an underlying concern. The concern was that critical approaches to the study of markets, which foreground and problematize their variegated character, seem to have reached something of an impasse. A gulf has opened up between those orthodox market purists who seem to see little beyond the abstract market prescribed by the neoclassical model (a self-regulating system of rational buyers and sellers) and the heterodox sceptics who, if they do not sidestep the market altogether, focus instead on an unruly plethora of real markets, criticizing the neoclassical market model as an idealized and ideological construct. As we point out elsewhere (Peck et al., 2020), the problem with these polar(ized) positions is that, notwithstanding their philosophical and normative differences, they all tend to work with, or against, a received reading of the capital-M Market as advanced by standard economic theory, indexing to this analytical yardstick in either positive or negative terms. On the heterodox side, the sway of the neoclassical, capital-M Market is manifest across a range of perspectives. Political-economic accounts, for instance, tend to invoke an understanding of the market as a destructive juggernaut.

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“…This has had three consequences: (I) voters do no longer feel represented by their consensus seeking political representatives; (II) a neoliberal policy agenda emerged characterized by the introduction of market mechanisms; (III) such neoliberal policy agendas have led to new uncertainties, stemming from a retrenchment of welfare policies and (misplaced) devotion to the regulatory qualities of markets. 10 These developments pushed apprehensive citizens to find new forms of political representation.…”

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Taking the Relationship Between Populism and Healthcare Seriously: A Call for Empirical Analysis Rather Than Moral Condemnation Comment on "A Scoping Review of Populist Radical Right Parties’ Influence on Welfare Policy and its Implications for Population Health in Europe"

Felder

Kuijper

Bal

2020

Int J Health Policy Manag

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In this commentary, we reflect on Rinaldi and Bekker’s scoping review of the literature on populist radical right (PRR) parties and welfare policies. We argue that their review provides political scientists and healthcare scholars with a firm basis to further explore the relationships between populism and welfare policies in different political systems. In line with the authors, we furthermore (re)emphasize the need for additional empirical inquiries into the relationship between populism and healthcare. But instead of expanding the research agenda suggested – for instance by adding categories or niches in which this relationship can be observed – we would like to challenge some of the premises of the studies conducted and reviewed thus far. We do so by identifying two concerns and by illustrating these concerns with two examples from the Netherlands.

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The organization of markets for collective concerns and their failures

Cited by 60 publications

References 47 publications

Implementing Marketization in Public Healthcare Systems: Performing Reform in the English National Health Service

Implementing Marketization in Public Healthcare Systems: Performing Reform in the English National Health Service

M/market frontiers

Taking the Relationship Between Populism and Healthcare Seriously: A Call for Empirical Analysis Rather Than Moral Condemnation Comment on "A Scoping Review of Populist Radical Right Parties’ Influence on Welfare Policy and its Implications for Population Health in Europe"

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