Magnus Paulsen Hansen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3589446 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Magnus Paulsen Hansen |
| PRENOMES | Magnus Paulsen |
| SOBRENOME | Hansen |
| ASSINATURA | HANSEN M P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1824-0064 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The disenchanted fairy godmother
We advocate for setting realistic expectations about the potential of evidence in resolving policy performance problems and caution against overstating the 'dream' of evidence-based policy making
From efficiency to ambivalence
The growing entanglement of digitalisation with the design and delivery of social and labour market policies has become an undisputed feature of contemporary welfare governance. A key area where the “digital welfare states” are emerging is the governance of labour market integration and the activation of individuals outside of the labour market. In this context, active social policy has been embodied and enacted through digital technologies that …
The politics of algorithmic profiling of unemployed
The proliferation of algorithmic profiling in public employment services has given rise to significant controversy, eliciting widespread concern and calls for more legitimate governance. So far, most studies addressing the issue of the legitimacy of algorithmic profiling of the unemployed have addressed it from a normative perspective asking whether such systems and tools are legitimate or not based on various principles such as effectiveness, fa…
Engaging with engagement
This article investigates an overlooked question: what kind of methodological sensitivity is necessary when using Laurent Thévenot's sociology of regimes of engagement (SRE) in ethnographic research? Thévenot's call to study proximate forms of engagement ‘below’ the public correlates with the recent turn to non-representational methodologies in ethnography. Thus, we discuss the methodological consequences of the ontological commitment of SRE thro…
Social investment in action
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate
Two logics of democracy in collaborative governance
Collaborative governance is a promising supplement to traditional Weberian bureaucracy and New Public Management. However, the legitimacy and accountability of collaborative governance processes and outcomes is questionable. Based on a comprehensive mapping of the scholarly literature, we show that the sweeping multiplicity of accountability and legitimacy conceptions, types and critiques is structured by two democratic logics: an electoral one r…
Special issue
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate
To address complex social problems, such as long-term unemployment, local authorities in many countries are developing 'holistic' or 'integrated' services, where multiple actors and professions collaborate with a view to better meet the needs of the individual citizen. By breaking with existing practices and regulations, collaborative services must be legitimized in new ways so as to appear acceptable not only in the eyes of the public and politi…
Introduction to the PMR special issue on accountability and legitimacy under collaborative governance
De la justification 30 år efter
Det er nu 30 år siden, at Luc Boltanski og Laurent Thévenot (B&T) for alvor præsenterede sig på den bredere sociologiske scene med deres fælles værk De la justification (DJ) (1991), som i dag fremstår som en af sociologiens nyklassikere. Analyserammen i DJ har vist sig særdeles sejlivet og har sat ringe i vandet, så også filosoffer, politologer, økonomer, geografer og historikere har taget den op til debat – og ikke mindst brugt den enten i dens …
Accounting for what and to whom? Accountability tensions in collaborations addressing long‐term unemployment
Across Europe, public employment services are experimenting with more holistic and cross‐sector collaborations to tackle the wicked problem of long‐term unemployment. These collaborations operate in a context characterised by tensions produced by multiple demands for accountability. Based on case studies of the accountability relations and challenges in five such collaborations in the Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders), Estonia, Scotland and Denmark…
Explaining the deadlock of the European social dialogue
The European Social Dialogue (ESD) is a mixed story of ongoing negotiations between the social partners but with rather few binding agreements. Whereas some see the sparse actions as an inevitable consequence of deep structural and political asymmetries, others have pointed out the key role played by the Commission, as a “shadow of hierarchy”, in pushing the social partners towards binding agreements. By applying novel insights from theories of v…
Planer om et job
I en dansk kontekst har arbejdsløse været styret gennem aktiveringspolitik i årtier, men under coronakrisen blev disse aktiveringspolitikker midlertidigt suspenderet. Hvad sker der, når en del af beskæftigelsessystemet sættes på hold som følge af pandemien, og hvordan former det oplevelsen af at være arbejdsløs? Baseret på dybdegående interview med 25 arbejdsløse under coronakrisen anvender vi Laurent Thévenots sociologi om engagementsregimer og …
Methodological reflections on Foucauldian analyses
This article seeks to provide a set of pointers for methodological reflections on Foucauldian-inspired analyses of the exercise of power. Michel Foucault deliberately eschewed methodological schemata, which may be why so little has been written on the methodological implications of his analyses. While this article shares the premise that we should refrain from a standardized methodology, it argues that providing broad pointers for analyses inform…
Planning for a Job
Like most OECD countries, unemployed people in Denmark have been subject to activation policies imbued with rights and obligations for decades. However, during the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, activation and conditionality were temporarily suspended. This article explores what happens to the experience of unemployment when part of the system is put on hold. Based on in-depth interviews conducted during the COVID-19 crisis with 25 unempl…
The Moral Economy of Activation
Activation policies which promote and enforce labour market participation continue to proliferate in Europe and constitute the reform blueprint from centre-left to centre-right, as well as for most international organizations. Rather than being disrupted the ‘active turn’ has consolidated by the recent financial and sovereign debt crises. Through an in-depth study of four major reforms in Denmark and France the book aims to answer how such reform…
Moral Economy of Activation
The Moral Economy of Activation
Activation policies which promote and enforce labour market participation continue to proliferate in Europe and constitute the reform blueprint from centre-left to centre-right, as well as for most international organizations. Through an in-depth study of four major reforms in Denmark and France, this book maps how co-existing ideas are mobilised to justify, criticise and reach activation compromises and how their morality sediments into the inst…
Legitimation as justification
In accounts of institutional change, discursive institutionalists point to the role of economic and political ideas in upending institutional stability and providing the raw material for the establishment of a new institutional setup. This approach has typically entailed a conceptualisation of ideas as coherent and monolithic and actors as almost automatically following the precepts of the ideas they hold and support. Recent theorising stresses h…
Non-normative critique
The close ties between modes of governing, subjectivities and critique in contemporary societies challenge the role of critical social research. The classical normative ethos of the unmasking researcher unravelling various oppressive structures of dominant vs. dominated groups in society is inadequate when it comes to understand de-politicizing mechanisms and the struggles they bring about. This article argues that only a non-normative position c…
Foucault’s Flirt? Neoliberalism, the Left and the Welfare State; a Commentary on La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault and Critiquer Foucault
An essay on the review of works interpreting the lectures of Michel Foucault on neoliberalism is presented. It offers a history of neoliberalism as a way to reinvent the left and examines the way Foucault betrayed the left while resisting to be connected with a normative political programme or principle for a neoliberal stance. The author relates the risks in neoliberal thought for losing what is specific in definitive statements and the loss of …
Debt, Neoliberalism and Crisis
The following presents parts of an interview conducted with Maurizio Lazzarato discussing his 2012 book, The Making of the Indebted Man. In this interview, Lazzarato first elaborates on his theoretical inspirations. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari in order to connect Nietzsche and Marx, he develops a theory of debt suggesting that the power of credit, central to neoliberalism, requires the construction of an indebted subjectivity. Pro…
The Lisbon strategy and the alignment of economic and social concerns
This paper examines the economic and social thought that has evolved around the Lisbon strategy, which aimed to turn the European Union into the world’s most competitive knowledge economy by 2010. It argues that a new regime of rationality has emerged in which economic and social objectives, which were previously thought to be at odds with one another, have become increasingly aligned. The supposed antinomy between economic efficiency and social …
Non-normative critique
The close ties between modes of governing, subjectivities and critique in contemporary societies challenge the role of critical social research. The classical normative ethos of the unmasking researcher unravelling various oppressive structures of dominant vs. dominated groups in society is inadequate when it comes to understand de-politicizing mechanisms and the struggles they bring about. This article argues that only a non-normative position c…
Legitimation as justification
In accounts of institutional change, discursive institutionalists point to the role of economic and political ideas in upending institutional stability and providing the raw material for the establishment of a new institutional setup. This approach has typically entailed a conceptualisation of ideas as coherent and monolithic and actors as almost automatically following the precepts of the ideas they hold and support. Recent theorising stresses h…
The Lisbon strategy and the alignment of economic and social concerns
This paper examines the economic and social thought that has evolved around the Lisbon strategy, which aimed to turn the European Union into the world’s most competitive knowledge economy by 2010. It argues that a new regime of rationality has emerged in which economic and social objectives, which were previously thought to be at odds with one another, have become increasingly aligned. The supposed antinomy between economic efficiency and social …
Explaining the deadlock of the European social dialogue
The European Social Dialogue (ESD) is a mixed story of ongoing negotiations between the social partners but with rather few binding agreements. Whereas some see the sparse actions as an inevitable consequence of deep structural and political asymmetries, others have pointed out the key role played by the Commission, as a “shadow of hierarchy”, in pushing the social partners towards binding agreements. By applying novel insights from theories of v…
Methodological reflections on Foucauldian analyses
This article seeks to provide a set of pointers for methodological reflections on Foucauldian-inspired analyses of the exercise of power. Michel Foucault deliberately eschewed methodological schemata, which may be why so little has been written on the methodological implications of his analyses. While this article shares the premise that we should refrain from a standardized methodology, it argues that providing broad pointers for analyses inform…
Foucault’s Flirt? Neoliberalism, the Left and the Welfare State; a Commentary on La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault and Critiquer Foucault
An essay on the review of works interpreting the lectures of Michel Foucault on neoliberalism is presented. It offers a history of neoliberalism as a way to reinvent the left and examines the way Foucault betrayed the left while resisting to be connected with a normative political programme or principle for a neoliberal stance. The author relates the risks in neoliberal thought for losing what is specific in definitive statements and the loss of …
Debt, Neoliberalism and Crisis
The following presents parts of an interview conducted with Maurizio Lazzarato discussing his 2012 book, The Making of the Indebted Man. In this interview, Lazzarato first elaborates on his theoretical inspirations. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari in order to connect Nietzsche and Marx, he develops a theory of debt suggesting that the power of credit, central to neoliberalism, requires the construction of an indebted subjectivity. Pro…
Engaging with engagement
This article investigates an overlooked question: what kind of methodological sensitivity is necessary when using Laurent Thévenot's sociology of regimes of engagement (SRE) in ethnographic research? Thévenot's call to study proximate forms of engagement ‘below’ the public correlates with the recent turn to non-representational methodologies in ethnography. Thus, we discuss the methodological consequences of the ontological commitment of SRE thro…
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate
Special issue
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate
To address complex social problems, such as long-term unemployment, local authorities in many countries are developing 'holistic' or 'integrated' services, where multiple actors and professions collaborate with a view to better meet the needs of the individual citizen. By breaking with existing practices and regulations, collaborative services must be legitimized in new ways so as to appear acceptable not only in the eyes of the public and politi…
Accounting for what and to whom? Accountability tensions in collaborations addressing long‐term unemployment
Across Europe, public employment services are experimenting with more holistic and cross‐sector collaborations to tackle the wicked problem of long‐term unemployment. These collaborations operate in a context characterised by tensions produced by multiple demands for accountability. Based on case studies of the accountability relations and challenges in five such collaborations in the Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders), Estonia, Scotland and Denmark…
The Lisbon strategy and the alignment of economic and social concerns
This paper examines the economic and social thought that has evolved around the Lisbon strategy, which aimed to turn the European Union into the world’s most competitive knowledge economy by 2010. It argues that a new regime of rationality has emerged in which economic and social objectives, which were previously thought to be at odds with one another, have become increasingly aligned. The supposed antinomy between economic efficiency and social …
Debt, Neoliberalism and Crisis
The following presents parts of an interview conducted with Maurizio Lazzarato discussing his 2012 book, The Making of the Indebted Man. In this interview, Lazzarato first elaborates on his theoretical inspirations. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari in order to connect Nietzsche and Marx, he develops a theory of debt suggesting that the power of credit, central to neoliberalism, requires the construction of an indebted subjectivity. Pro…
Foucault’s Flirt? Neoliberalism, the Left and the Welfare State; a Commentary on La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault and Critiquer Foucault
An essay on the review of works interpreting the lectures of Michel Foucault on neoliberalism is presented. It offers a history of neoliberalism as a way to reinvent the left and examines the way Foucault betrayed the left while resisting to be connected with a normative political programme or principle for a neoliberal stance. The author relates the risks in neoliberal thought for losing what is specific in definitive statements and the loss of …
Non-normative critique
The close ties between modes of governing, subjectivities and critique in contemporary societies challenge the role of critical social research. The classical normative ethos of the unmasking researcher unravelling various oppressive structures of dominant vs. dominated groups in society is inadequate when it comes to understand de-politicizing mechanisms and the struggles they bring about. This article argues that only a non-normative position c…
The Moral Economy of Activation
Activation policies which promote and enforce labour market participation continue to proliferate in Europe and constitute the reform blueprint from centre-left to centre-right, as well as for most international organizations. Rather than being disrupted the ‘active turn’ has consolidated by the recent financial and sovereign debt crises. Through an in-depth study of four major reforms in Denmark and France the book aims to answer how such reform…
Moral Economy of Activation
The Moral Economy of Activation
Activation policies which promote and enforce labour market participation continue to proliferate in Europe and constitute the reform blueprint from centre-left to centre-right, as well as for most international organizations. Through an in-depth study of four major reforms in Denmark and France, this book maps how co-existing ideas are mobilised to justify, criticise and reach activation compromises and how their morality sediments into the inst…
Legitimation as justification
In accounts of institutional change, discursive institutionalists point to the role of economic and political ideas in upending institutional stability and providing the raw material for the establishment of a new institutional setup. This approach has typically entailed a conceptualisation of ideas as coherent and monolithic and actors as almost automatically following the precepts of the ideas they hold and support. Recent theorising stresses h…
Planning for a Job
Like most OECD countries, unemployed people in Denmark have been subject to activation policies imbued with rights and obligations for decades. However, during the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, activation and conditionality were temporarily suspended. This article explores what happens to the experience of unemployment when part of the system is put on hold. Based on in-depth interviews conducted during the COVID-19 crisis with 25 unempl…
Introduction to the PMR special issue on accountability and legitimacy under collaborative governance
De la justification 30 år efter
Det er nu 30 år siden, at Luc Boltanski og Laurent Thévenot (B&T) for alvor præsenterede sig på den bredere sociologiske scene med deres fælles værk De la justification (DJ) (1991), som i dag fremstår som en af sociologiens nyklassikere. Analyserammen i DJ har vist sig særdeles sejlivet og har sat ringe i vandet, så også filosoffer, politologer, økonomer, geografer og historikere har taget den op til debat – og ikke mindst brugt den enten i dens …
Accounting for what and to whom? Accountability tensions in collaborations addressing long‐term unemployment
Across Europe, public employment services are experimenting with more holistic and cross‐sector collaborations to tackle the wicked problem of long‐term unemployment. These collaborations operate in a context characterised by tensions produced by multiple demands for accountability. Based on case studies of the accountability relations and challenges in five such collaborations in the Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders), Estonia, Scotland and Denmark…
Explaining the deadlock of the European social dialogue
The European Social Dialogue (ESD) is a mixed story of ongoing negotiations between the social partners but with rather few binding agreements. Whereas some see the sparse actions as an inevitable consequence of deep structural and political asymmetries, others have pointed out the key role played by the Commission, as a “shadow of hierarchy”, in pushing the social partners towards binding agreements. By applying novel insights from theories of v…
Planer om et job
I en dansk kontekst har arbejdsløse været styret gennem aktiveringspolitik i årtier, men under coronakrisen blev disse aktiveringspolitikker midlertidigt suspenderet. Hvad sker der, når en del af beskæftigelsessystemet sættes på hold som følge af pandemien, og hvordan former det oplevelsen af at være arbejdsløs? Baseret på dybdegående interview med 25 arbejdsløse under coronakrisen anvender vi Laurent Thévenots sociologi om engagementsregimer og …
Methodological reflections on Foucauldian analyses
This article seeks to provide a set of pointers for methodological reflections on Foucauldian-inspired analyses of the exercise of power. Michel Foucault deliberately eschewed methodological schemata, which may be why so little has been written on the methodological implications of his analyses. While this article shares the premise that we should refrain from a standardized methodology, it argues that providing broad pointers for analyses inform…
Two logics of democracy in collaborative governance
Collaborative governance is a promising supplement to traditional Weberian bureaucracy and New Public Management. However, the legitimacy and accountability of collaborative governance processes and outcomes is questionable. Based on a comprehensive mapping of the scholarly literature, we show that the sweeping multiplicity of accountability and legitimacy conceptions, types and critiques is structured by two democratic logics: an electoral one r…
Special issue
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate
To address complex social problems, such as long-term unemployment, local authorities in many countries are developing 'holistic' or 'integrated' services, where multiple actors and professions collaborate with a view to better meet the needs of the individual citizen. By breaking with existing practices and regulations, collaborative services must be legitimized in new ways so as to appear acceptable not only in the eyes of the public and politi…
The disenchanted fairy godmother
We advocate for setting realistic expectations about the potential of evidence in resolving policy performance problems and caution against overstating the 'dream' of evidence-based policy making
From efficiency to ambivalence
The growing entanglement of digitalisation with the design and delivery of social and labour market policies has become an undisputed feature of contemporary welfare governance. A key area where the “digital welfare states” are emerging is the governance of labour market integration and the activation of individuals outside of the labour market. In this context, active social policy has been embodied and enacted through digital technologies that …
The politics of algorithmic profiling of unemployed
The proliferation of algorithmic profiling in public employment services has given rise to significant controversy, eliciting widespread concern and calls for more legitimate governance. So far, most studies addressing the issue of the legitimacy of algorithmic profiling of the unemployed have addressed it from a normative perspective asking whether such systems and tools are legitimate or not based on various principles such as effectiveness, fa…
Engaging with engagement
This article investigates an overlooked question: what kind of methodological sensitivity is necessary when using Laurent Thévenot's sociology of regimes of engagement (SRE) in ethnographic research? Thévenot's call to study proximate forms of engagement ‘below’ the public correlates with the recent turn to non-representational methodologies in ethnography. Thus, we discuss the methodological consequences of the ontological commitment of SRE thro…
Social investment in action
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate
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