This paper aims to critically analyse the postcolonial institutional politics of producing global public management policies and reforms, particularly NPM and its post-discourses. Theoretically, it draws on Michel Foucault’s notions of disciplinary power, biopolitics and governmentality. Methodologically, it relies on a critical discourse analysis of texts produced by the (OECD), especially its annual reports from 1978 till 2012 and other “texts” that it produced to propagate a discourse of global governmentality. Accordingly, this paper illustrates how the notion of governmentality becomes global simultaneously through both macrophysical and microphysical apparatuses of power. In terms of macrophysical apparatuses, the paper concentrates on the particular technological tools of objectivation and subjectivation of a global population of nation states. In terms of microphysics, it concentrates on the particular set of technological and institutional tools through which a set of ‘bodies’ are constructed to carry the neoliberal development ideologies across the national boundaries.
