TY - JOUR
T1 - The organization of discipline
T2 - From performance management to perversity and punishment
AU - Soss, Joe
AU - Fording, Richard
AU - Schram, Sanford F.
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - Drawing on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and statistical analysis of administrative data, this article explores the operation of performance management in the Florida Welfare Transition program and its effects on decisions to sanction welfare clients. Unlike most econometric research on welfare sanctions, we approach sanctioning as an organized practice that reflects, not just client characteristics and behaviors, but also organizational needs, routines, values, authority relations, environments, and systems of reward and punishment. Our analysis focuses on the organization of discipline and, in the process, suggests that scholars may misrepresent and misinterpret the incidence of discipline when they fail to account for the dynamic ways that organization and management shape sanctioning patterns.
AB - Drawing on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and statistical analysis of administrative data, this article explores the operation of performance management in the Florida Welfare Transition program and its effects on decisions to sanction welfare clients. Unlike most econometric research on welfare sanctions, we approach sanctioning as an organized practice that reflects, not just client characteristics and behaviors, but also organizational needs, routines, values, authority relations, environments, and systems of reward and punishment. Our analysis focuses on the organization of discipline and, in the process, suggests that scholars may misrepresent and misinterpret the incidence of discipline when they fail to account for the dynamic ways that organization and management shape sanctioning patterns.
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U2 - 10.1093/jopart/muq095
DO - 10.1093/jopart/muq095
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79953687694
SN - 1053-1858
VL - 21
SP - i203-i232
JO - Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
JF - Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
IS - SUPPL. 2
ER -