Performative Governance
Impression Management, Teamwork, and Conflict Containment in City Commission Proceedings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2366499 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Futrell (0000-0002-2885-9103, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 494-529 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/089124199129023316 |
| OpenAlex | W2003812828 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article discusses patterns of interaction among citizens and officials in city commission proceedings. Drawing on Goffman's dramaturgical metaphor, the author examines elements of discourse and action that create interactional inequities and unobtrusive limits to democratic participation in this setting. The proceedings are described as a series of interactional performances geared toward maintaining an atmosphere of public involvement in decisions made by the commission. Techniques of impression management, teamwork, and strategies of conflict containment are employed by commissioners to manage the flow of interaction and mitigate conflicts that emerge among participants during the proceedings. At the same time, an impression of concern for constituents and an atmosphere of constructive public involvement in the commission's decisions is displayed. This constitutes a situation of performative governance-an occasion in which impressions of committed governance are staged and maintained by officials, yet effective inclusion of citizenry in decision making is negligible
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Atmosphere (unit · Commission · Constructive · Corporate governance · Democracy · Inclusion (mineral · Management · Metaphor · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Public Policy and Administration Research · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
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From big apple to home of hockey
Less talk, more action
Performing Governance Through Networks
Developing integrated rural tourism
Bringers of light
Inscribing the self
The Public Meeting as a Theatre of Dissent
Making a Drama Out of a Crisis a Dramaturgical Perspective on the New Technology Controversy
Everyday Routines in Free Spaces
The Everyday Drama of Coproduction in Community Mental Health Services
Building localized and generic scenarios for sea and river dikes based on their socio-ecological footprint
Erving Goffman and “The New Normal”
Digging the Dugway
Fatal Choices The Routinization of Deceit, Incompetence, and Corruption
On Staging Work
Performing Expertise in Human-Animal Relationships
Writing the Other, Inscribing the Self
Performing Safety in Faulty Environments
Integrating Dark Humor and Compassion
Genetically modified soybeans, agrochemical exposure, and everyday forms of peasant collaboration in Argentina
The Frame Analysis of Participation
Environments and organizations
Citizenship
Writing Strategies
Encounters
Habermas and the public sphere
Frame analysis
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Strong Democracy
Behavior in Public Places
Adversary and Cooperationist Institutions for Conflict Resolution in Public Policymaking
The Electronic Commonwealth
The Interaction Order
Political Claims, Legal Derailment, and the Context of Disputes
The Electronic Commonwealth
Goffman and Interactional Citizenship
The Nature of Social Pasts and Their Use as Foundations for Situated Action
Toward Ethnographies of Institutional Discourse
Rule Making, Exceptioning, and County Land Use Decisions
The Interactional Study of Organizations
Unobtrusive Power
Dispute Domains
The Organization and Consequences of Social Pasts in Criminal Courts
Presidential Address
Dramaturgy and Social Movements
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,81 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |