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