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Insurance as Governance - Dean Barry, Aaron Doyle, Richard V. Ericson

Insurance as Governance

Buch | Softcover
384 Seiten
2003
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-0-8020-8574-0 (ISBN)
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Insurance as Governance is the first major sociological study of the insurance industry. It examines how the industry controls our institutions and daily lives in ways that are largely invisible, and how it thereby functions as a form of government beyond the state.


Drawing on extensive ethnographic research on industry practices, the work penetrates the complexities of the insurance industry and demonstrates why it is such a powerful and pervasive institution. The authors advance the concept of moral risk as they consider how insurance companies partner with governments and corporations in the negotiation of economic policy.


In effect, Insurance as Governance documents liberal theory at work. It offers a major case study of liberal governance beyond the state and explores such larger issues as how insurance is increasingly liberal rather than welfarist in orientation, and how insurance is the vanguard of liberalization in governance throughout postindustrial societies. Wide-ranging in scope and original in approach, the text provides a sophisticated integration of empirical data and theoretical approaches relating to insurance, risk, governance, and security.

Dean Barry is Policy Research and Development Officer, Citizenship and Immigration, Government of Canada. Aaron Doyle is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carlton University. The late Richard V. Ericson was Principal of Green College, University of British Columbia, a centre for interdisciplinary scholarship and graduate education.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.7.2003
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 228 mm
Gewicht 636 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Finanzwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8020-8574-1 / 0802085741
ISBN-13 978-0-8020-8574-0 / 9780802085740
Zustand Neuware
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