The facilitative state and the symbolic potency of mutal oblitation
By: MUETZELFELDT, Michael
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ArticlePublisher: Oxford : Blackwell Publishers Limited, June 2001Australian Journal of Public Administration 60, 2, p. 99-110Abstract: This paper discusses ambiguities of mutual obligation at the levels of: defining the new political middle ground, policies for dealing with non-compliance, the analytical frames that are used to support it, and discourses of contract. It concludes by locating these ambiguities within the cultural anthropological notion of symbol. As a symbol, mutual obligation has the power to confound its critics - criticism of the notion and its inconsistent policy prescriptions ins generally not assessed as rigth or wrong, but rather is rendered irrelevant
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This paper discusses ambiguities of mutual obligation at the levels of: defining the new political middle ground, policies for dealing with non-compliance, the analytical frames that are used to support it, and discourses of contract. It concludes by locating these ambiguities within the cultural anthropological notion of symbol. As a symbol, mutual obligation has the power to confound its critics - criticism of the notion and its inconsistent policy prescriptions ins generally not assessed as rigth or wrong, but rather is rendered irrelevant
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