Protocols as a Tool for Government

✍ Scribed by Enrico Gargiulo

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 113
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a genealogy of the concept of ‘protocol’ in government. It examines the functions that different protocols play in the contemporary world, and how they act as devices which regulate delicate and strategic fields of politics and society. The book opens by assessing the historical origins of the word ‘protocol’, proposes a typology of protocols, and highlights the three main actions of these devices: formalising, standardising, and certifying. It then stresses the ways in which protocols are employed as governing devices, their use as policy instruments, and their role within capitalism. The book concludes by analysing protocol as a method for managing various aspects of social life. The politics of protocols and the dilemmas they present, especially within crisis and emergency scenarios, are also discussed. The book will appeal to scholars and students of public policy, sociology, political philosophy and the theory of law.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Protocol: The Word and the Concepts
A Genealogy of Protocol
Varieties of Protocols
Formalising, Standardising, Certifying
References
Chapter 2: Governing Through Protocols
An Analytics of Policy Instruments
Calculating, Policing, Controlling
The Power of Protocol
References
Chapter 3: Protocol as Method
The Politics of Protocols
A Pandemic of Protocols
The Dilemmas of Protocols
References
References
Index