Citizens’ contracts as a tricky steering medium

Abstract

In this chapter I seek to analyse how the form of contract is reshaped to work as a public steering medium in relation to citizens. In private law a contract is defined as a voluntary agreement binding on individual freedom. Freedom and personal responsibility are presumed in private contracting. However, today’s public sector is making a misreading of private contracting in the logic of public steering, turning the causality upside down. Public contracting with individual citizens is seen as a technology for the making of individual freedom and responsibility, turning the single individual citizen into a partner of the state. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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