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. 2022 Jun 15;45(2):283–308. doi: 10.1007/s10746-022-09629-3

Table 1.

Categories of Civic, Industrial and Market OW and schematic OW drift in the German political economy of health

Civic Industrial Market
Mode of evaluation (worth) Collective interest a Technical efficiency Price, cost
Test Equality b Competence, reliability, planning Market competitiveness
Form of relevant proof Formal, official Measurable: criteria, statistics Monetary
Qualified objects Rules and regulations, fundamental rights c Infrastructure, method, plan, project, technical object Freely circulating market good or service
Qualified subjects Citizens d Engineer, expert, professional Customer, consumer, merchant, seller
Time formation Perennial Long-term planned future Short-term, flexibility
Space formation Detachment Cartesian space Globalization

a) The earlier term used by Boltanski and Thévenot (1999:368) is given, not the later term “collective welfare” (Thévenot et al., 2000: 241)

b) later amended to "equality and solidarity" in Thévenot et al. (2000: 241)

c) later amended to “rules and regulations, fundamental rights, welfare policies” in Thévenot et al. (2000: 241)

d) later amended to “equal citizens, solidarity unions" in Thévenot et al. (2000: 241)

Sources: Boltanski and Thévenot (1999: 368); Thévenot et al. (2000: 241); Modified by author