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more than holding a regular job; acceptance of their illness, situations, and limitations; and desirefor a meaningful and fulfilling life within the clubhouse. The results contributed to a betterunderstanding of the lived experience of individuals with mental illness in the context of aclubhouse and their extended rehabilitation and provided important implications for social workprofessionals.111. Mental Health Policy & Governance‘Nudging’ v Realist Governmentality Analytics: New Approaches for MoreEffective Social PolicyMaree Livermore, Australian National University (mliv@livermore.com.au)The currently-influential behavioural economics (‘nudging’) principles assert that some irrationalbehaviour is predictable and can be modified, through policy, by delimitation of citizen choice.This may involve the use of technologies designed to influence behaviour on a subconsciouslevel. Nudges are defended on the basis that they are ‘good’ – both for society and for theindividual, yet despite their potential power for both proper and improper purpose, no reflexivepractice attends. Furthermore, nudging principles apply totalised views of human behaviour withno consideration of idiosyncracy – including in relation to the (possibly deleterious) specificeffects of the nudging policies themselves, and to the conditions applying in the particular socialsystem in which nudges may be applied. This paper argues that, while nudges may be effectivelyapplied in appropriate conditions, the approach is blunt in its front-end analysis, particularly ofcomplex and unique social policy contexts like individual health sectors. By contrast, it isargued, the post-Foucauldian ‘realist governmentality’ approach may deliver more nuanced andultimately more reliable reporting on the landscape of influence, and processes of subjectformation and resistance, that actually prevail and determine outcomes in a particular socialcontext. ‘Realist governmentality’ empirical study has potential, then, to found cheaper andultimately more successful policy design (that may, or may not, include nudges).'Governance + Governmentality': Twinning Perspectives from the Air and on theStreet on Mental Health Sector RegulationMaree Livermore, Australian National University (mliv@livermore.com.au)As “fundamentally a social practice” (Burris, 2008), the agency of a law in a specific context willalways be contingent on and subject to an array of unstated, and largely untested, assumptions.Furthermore, the law is only one of an array of technologies of influence employed by an arrayof actors in a regulatory field in order to achieve an array of (sometimes-conflicting) objectives.In this pluralist complexity, characteristic of the mental health sector, it has been difficult to267