The management by means of the individualizing and competitive assessment as a joint element in contemporary public and management policies: a critical contribution from the work of Michel Foucault

This article contains some reflections about the challenges posed to public policies' management vis-à-vis the hegemony of the managerial logic raised by the neoliberal economic rationality. It examines, in particular, aspects of the strategic role that evaluation is taking on in public policies' management. The framing in the work processes generated by the contemporary capitalist logic requires new strategies to control production, work and life. From the discussion on 'the neoliberal art of governing' proposed by Foucault (2008, 2009), we expect to broaden the debate about this issue through concrete examples in the field of health and in other fields, such as education and scientific production.

Neoliberalism; government; public policy; evaluation