The Use of Market Metaphors in Public Participation Discourse

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-1999

Abstract

The use of market metaphors in public participation discourse is analyzed with the focus on the reliance on business roles — i.e., customer, owner, investor and employee — to explain citizen-administrator relations. An argument is made that each of these metaphors distorts the nature of citizenship to some extent. Owner/investor metaphors are more appropriate nevertheless because of the meaning they confer on citizenship in relation to active/passive and individuals/community oriented dimensions and the use of voice or exit. © 1999, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

Identifier

85012471910 (Scopus)

Publication Title

International Review of Public Administration

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.1999.10804929

e-ISSN

23317795

ISSN

12294659

First Page

13

Last Page

21

Issue

2

Volume

4

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